fib

Example Sentences

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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

I challenged his movie reviews and caught him in a fib now and again.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 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

No reporter ever cottoned on to her fib, but the newspaper coverage rattled her.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield