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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confabulate.

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  • I suspect that a lot of this is because my brain confabulates details in that semiconscious stage just before waking, patching in cause and effect and rationalizations to explain just why I and the cast of Firefly are on a mission to replace the Pope with a robot double.

    Dream logic « 2009

  • But since the brain can no longer summon up that sense of feeling familiar, the sufferer confabulates the assumption that his wife must be an imposter.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • But since the brain can no longer summon up that sense of feeling familiar, the sufferer confabulates the assumption that his wife must be an imposter.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Reducing her claimed stature as an "expert" on energy will reduce the likelihood that viewers will give her a "pass" on the gobbledygook she confabulates on other subjects.

    Paul Abrams: Sarah Palin May Really Win the Debate: What Biden Must Do to Prevent It 2008

  • Ryan than confabulates: ‘FYI … to say that no deaths = definitive is irresponsible’.

    Think Progress » Exclusive: Classified Pentagon Document Described White Phosphorus As ‘Chemical Weapon’ 2005

  • * The concerned ministry confabulates with the finance ministry for a bailout package

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • The cognitive unconscious feeds stimuli into the storyteller from the outside, at which point, as discussed in biology 202, the storyteller constructs, or confabulates, stories that rationalize what the brain perceives through this stimuli.

    Serendip's Exchange - Brie Stark 2009

  • Slate. com confabulates with me anent the wacky world of Washington.

    The Latest on Air America 2009

  • Now, for reasons that neurobiologists still strive to classify, Claudia's storyteller has made a dramatic switch in the way that it confabulates.

    Serendip's Exchange - Brie Stark 2009

  • Not satisfied with not comprehending the Bill or its significance, the editorial confabulates that "the tax rules in question were developed decades ago for enterprises that had passive investors to whom gains were passed along.

    Let's Understand The Levin's "Carried Interest Bill!" 2007

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