fabrication

American  

[fab-ri-key-shuhn] / ˌfæb rɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

fabrications plural

1. the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.

2. something fabricated, especially an untruthful statement.

   His account of the robbery is a complete fabrication.

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Synonym Usage

See fiction.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• fabrications
  plural

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).

Example Sentences

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fabrication fabrications

He had spent more than a decade remodeling homes as a general contractor and also had experience in metal fabrication from a job building race cars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Without memory-chip fabrication capabilities, China’s domestic semiconductor industry faced a critical supply-chain chokepoint.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

The researchers found that more than 250,000 papers contained writing patterns similar to those seen in studies that had already been retracted over suspected fabrication.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

“With each new customer commitment and each new fabrication process they unveil, the signs are looking better and better.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

They never had to make this fabrication a matter of public record, however: their letter to Bloom accusing him of this deed did the trick—he finally dropped out of the fight as if poleaxed.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

I worked as a journalist at NBC News and CNN, and later as head of news at Meta, working with the team that built systems to distinguish credible news articles from fabrications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

All those half truths and outright fabrications, giving people what they wanted without stopping to think about what she really wanted.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Related Words

• deceit
• falsehood
• fiction
• forgery
• myth
• untruth