fabrication
Common misspellings:
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- fabercation (8.0%)
- fab (12.0%)
- fabriction (8.0%)
- fabracation (16.0%)
- fabracatin (8.0%)
- fabriaction (24.0%)
- frabrication (8.0%)
- fabricaion (16.0%)
Usage examples for fabrication:
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This was rendered less costly by the fact that the forest of Montegnac furnished all the necessary wood and clay for its fabrication
"The Village Rector" – Honore de Balzac -
When only eleven years old, he began the fabrication of documents in prose and verse, which he ascribed to a fictitious Thomas Rowley, a secular priest at Bristol in the 15th century.
"Brief History of English and American Literature" – Henry A. Beers -
I print this letter, and, if any one chooses to think that it is a crafty fabrication I can only say that its craft would have beguiled myself as it beguiled Scott.
"Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy" – Andrew Lang -
Once, after retailing minutely the details of an assault undertaken by the Portuguese and Spaniards against the French- which he was informed had continued for six days and during which about 8000 of the former and 6000 of the latter had been killed- and subsequent to which all the inhabitants of Elvas had been put to the sword by the French- he appends with pardonable irritation-" Not a word of this true- the whole a fabrication for the amusement of country gentlemen and ladies."
"The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I." – A. M. W. Stirling (compiler)