fabricate
verb (used with object)
to make by art or skill and labor; construct.
have fabricated
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present perfectof fabricate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“These cases raise concern that pieces associated with Koutoulakis could have fabricated or misrepresented histories,” said David W. Gill, an expert on archaeology and antiquities market.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
The Associated Press reported earlier this month that the funeral home appeared to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
"There's no way you could have fabricated that. It's the brilliant thing about real life, that you don't know where it's going to take you."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
The paper determined that the podcast relied too heavily on a self-proclaimed former Islamic State fighter who was found to have fabricated his claims.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022
Can any one conceive that a writer of laws, living in Palestine hundreds of years afterwards, could have fabricated these allusions to the camp life and the tent life of the people?
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden
