confabulate
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“We know people confabulate details in many situations, but it was neat to see this play out in the context of imagination,” McCoy says.
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2023
The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together.
From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.
She does not break the thread of a conversation by irrelevant questions or confabulate in an undertone with the servants.
From Worldly Ways and Byways by Gregory, Eliot
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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