Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One engaged in familiar talk or conversation.
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- noun One who
confabulates .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was a great "confabulator," she says, with affection, more beholden to complicated truths than plain facts.
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He was a great "confabulator," she says, with affection, more beholden to complicated truths than plain facts.
Edmonton Sun 2009
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He was a great "confabulator," she says, with affection, more beholden to complicated truths than plain facts.
LJWorld.com stories: News By Hillel Italie - AP National Writer 2009
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It would be nice to keep the "serial exaggerator/confabulator" drumbeat.
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And so, when the next great question arises, the Englishman may again make the Times his crony and confabulator, just as he would more likely, through general sympathy of notions and feelings, to take counsel with private acquaintances who had erred with him in predicting success to the South, rather than with those who had dissented from him in desire and expectation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various
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They learn to cultivate a "dual mind," part of which doesn't plan or discriminate and thus unleashes its inventive powers, while the other part maintains a higher level monitoring of the situation, looking out for opportunities to develop the narrative. case report of a 48 year old male patient named SB who, after suffering a subarachnoid hemorrhage in his frontal lobe, became a chronic confabulator.
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With the US Secretary of State following the plans of her boss the Department of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the known confabulator from the Iran-Contra days, The United States of America has its Fourth Fleet threatening all the Americas, but especially Venezuela.
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In recent years, we’ve had movies, like “Adaptation” (written by the antic confabulator Charlie Kaufman), that are explicitly about the making of movies, and others, like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (also written by Kaufman), that move forward dramatically by going backward in time.
Archive 2007-03-01 KaneCitizen 2007
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In recent years, we’ve had movies, like “Adaptation” (written by the antic confabulator Charlie Kaufman), that are explicitly about the making of movies, and others, like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (also written by Kaufman), that move forward dramatically by going backward in time.
Denby on Non-Sequential Chronology in Movies KaneCitizen 2007
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We want to get CASPA up there, to be available direct to TVs, without users needing to own a TiVo. "launched by Yahoo! and Intel in August 2008 as an evolution of Yahoo! 's confabulator-based PC widgets.
ry commented on the word confabulator
This has same definition in Latin; one who chats
June 6, 2013