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
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
The forest is their citadel, where, mounted on lofty trees waving in the breeze, they confabulate, and, as naturalists have often described, arm themselves with sticks and stones, and in conscious independence defy all intruders.
From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous
Bored to death, both of us, we confabulate together huddled in shawls and greatcoats, each holding a charcoal pan to keep the fingers from being frostbitten.
From Alone by Douglas, Norman
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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