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v. - Meeting in order to talk something over; Talk socially without exchanging too much information; Unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory.

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  • I simply think she should not confabulate and reinvent her position.
  • Untreated alcoholics confabulate; they make things up as they go along.
  • To disprove the ancient earth they must confabulate spurious refutations of quantum mechanics.
  • Here are the facts that Spencer has managed to confabulate on his website's rendition of events:
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