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fibbed

  • past participle of fib.
  • past tense form of fib.

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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

“I think he fibbed to me,” he told TMZ.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2023

At his death bed, some of the siblings wanted to comfort him, so they fibbed that he’d finally been inducted.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2019

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

From Slate • Aug. 30, 2019

So what if she’d fibbed a little about her pencil case?

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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