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  • verb Present participle of confabulate.

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Examples

  • As the zone of exception known as Gitmo is about to be padlocked by the incoming President of the United States, desperate agents are bobbing, weaving and confabulating.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Is it possible that he is misremembering some things -- maybe even confabulating memories of the 1993 bombing with the 2001 disaster?

    9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing 2009

  • They are Capra rip-offs who, clad in the skins of Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur, shun debates, spout confabulating combinations of Jack Chick homophobia and Creation Museum cretinism, while looking every bit as if they were products of a right wing studio system: scouted, signed to Mephistophelean contracts and schooled in the ways of appearing just familiarly earthy enough to sway the hearts of disenfranchised Americans.

    Steven Weber: It's A Tea-Baggerful Life 2010

  • He could only mean Macmahon (who'd never been near me in the bloody Legion, but that's gossip for you), and as I sat rooted and mute at all this appalling news, which had whisked me in a twinkling from the heights of hope to the depths of despair, it struck me that there had been some marvellous secret confabulating in high places lately, hadn't there just?

    Watershed 2010

  • I know Morty used to say they cried for Ava all the time, but that was Morty confabulating, said Carmine.

    Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010

  • As the zone of exception known as Gitmo is about to be padlocked by the incoming President of the United States, desperate agents are bobbing, weaving and confabulating.

    Defamation 2009

  • I realize you are confabulating, but based on some of the unreasonable things said online and the posters of such, admonished by you "Long live the internet", by the way, I would think you would be more careful not to insult others.

    Hogfoot, Here in NC 2007

  • Shaver seems to have been confabulating, with pulp-scifi trappings, to cover for some sort of personally traumatic experience.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • Michael Savage, you did a great job of confabulating liberals and AIDS, as well as totally lying about the nature of liberalism, which is the founding political system that grants you the freedom of speech to trash freedom.

    And the Devil of the Week for Media Hype is . . . 2006

  • At least that's what I remember him saying; maybe I'm confabulating.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Mac 2006

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