Thesaurus results for CONFABULATED

confabulated

verb

past tense of confabulate

as in consulted

to exchange viewpoints or seek advice for the purpose of finding a solution to a problem an Alzheimer's support group in which caregivers can confabulate as well as commiserate

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Recent Examples of confabulated The errant or confabulated information that AI tools can generate is often referred to as hallucinations. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026 These failures occurred when the AI models confabulated successful operations and built subsequent actions on false premises, highlighting the risks of depending on AI assistants that can misinterpret file structures or fabricate data to hide their errors. — ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025

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The pickup’s driver, a 34-year-old woman from Garden City, Kansas, was taken into custody but was later released after police consulted with the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office.

— Maggie Vespa, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
More complaints came in in June, and the agency contacted the people who filed them and gave them information about coyote behavior and consulted with the state about residents’ concerns.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

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The state bestowed Netflix, Paramount and Lionsgate as studio partners, which have conferred a series of incentives to produce titles there.

— Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
Judge, along with Michael Schuck, the club’s director of sports medicine and rehabilitation, conferred with the skipper.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026

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Notable In 2025, during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing, a hot mic picked up a conversation between Putin and Xi in which the two discussed organ transplants and the possibility of living forever.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2026
The agency and private space company SpaceX have also discussed sending humans to Mars in the not-so-distant future.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

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