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But when she does lie, she is compelled to confess, even when the fib is innocuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"Perhaps the starkest," Dr Rogers said, were her attempts to explain the cancer fib.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025

If someone were to ask me how I kept my sanity this past year, I would first probably fib and come up with something literary.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2024

Rae’s pretext for the connection: Piano music helps her work, and Yoori was recommended by someone who overheard her practicing at the music school, a fib that the sweet but self-effacing Yoori hardly believes.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

The fib was an easy one to tell.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

I also wouldn’t assign her fibs any intention other than self-preservation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

After an overconfident miller fibs that his daughter can spin straw into gold, a greedy king locks the poor girl in a room full of straw.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

But Ulman has strung together a net of interesting observations: glances, insults, mistaken presumptions and gaslighting fibs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025

This country tells itself a lot of fibs about how good and great it is — but there are people who don’t just believe them, but devote their lives to making them come true.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2025

Shelly was sharp when it came to sniffing out fibs, so I just came out and asked her: “Did you ever hear about anything crooked going on with that boat?”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

Abraham Lincoln fibbed as well, telling newspaper readers in 1862 that he was not considering emancipating the Confederacy’s enslaved people when he’d already decided to do so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024

Blanche forced Cohen to acknowledge that he fibbed under oath during his own 2018 plea hearing about not feeling pressure to plead guilty.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024

So, he apparently fibbed to…give the markets a brief pop.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2019

No sooner had we met than Pat confessed that he had fibbed.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019

They’ve fibbed plenty of times about things they’ve broken, haven’t they?

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

Some people say they've resorted to fibbing about illnesses, emigration or even prison sentences so the company will stop trying to keep them signed up.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026

Stunned by her blatant fibbing, I backed off.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

By the way, they also confess to occasionally fibbing about “overqualificiations” to spare job applicants’ egos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

But for someone who is already elected, Redfield said getting caught fibbing isn’t a clear-cut end.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

Now, we won’t be fibbing if we say the bathroom.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson