fib
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"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
He wasn’t aware at the time, but the daughter had gone next door and called 911 to say someone had been stabbed — a fib that she later retracted, White said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2023
When he once caught young Hannah in a fib, she recalled, Jackson said, “‘I knew you was telling a story.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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