fabrication
Americannoun
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fabrications
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the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
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something fabricated, especially an untruthful statement.
His account of the robbery is a complete fabrication.
Synonym Usage
See fiction.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fabrication
First recorded in 1475–1500; from Latin fabricātiōn- (stem of fabricātiō ). See fabricate, -ion
Explanation
A fabrication is something made up, like a lie. Telling your boss that the subway broke down when in fact you just forgot to set your alarm is a fabrication. The word fabrication was originally used to talk about manufacturing or construction, and it referred to the act of assembling something. Tires and steering wheels are necessary materials for automobile fabrication. Nowadays, the word fabrication is usually used to refer to the act of coming up with a story out of thin air. In this sense, a book of fiction is a fabrication, as is the lie you tell your girlfriend to explain why you forgot her birthday (again).
Vocabulary lists containing fabrication
A Web of Lies
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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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Example Sentences
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Although Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung have all announced plans to build out more fabrication capacity, it’s still a multiyear process, Gold said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Taxing raw aluminum while ignoring derivative products only encourages the downstream fabrication industry to offshore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“When projects require dedicated stages, fabrication, motion-control photography or other specialised physical infrastructure, we will work with appropriate external facilities to meet the needs of each production.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
Navantia has already made substantial investments in Belfast, including an expansion to the fabrication hall and installing plasma cutting equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Watson ran down to the metal shop in the basement of the Cavendish labs to expedite the fabrication of the modeling parts.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The ubiquity of such fabrications does not make it any less dangerous to a democratic society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The judiciary is getting increasingly nervous about AI fabrications becoming part of the judicial record.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
As good as these models are at sounding like an all-knowing person, they also regularly make believable, authoritatively-worded fabrications known as hallucinations.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
"These are crude fabrications, illicit offers and sales, and purported fundraising campaigns that have never received any endorsement from the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which cannot condone these scams," it wrote in a statement on Saturday.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
We met him in the company of a mine boss named Festile, and we told him the same fabrications that we had told Dr. Xuma.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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