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talk socially without exchanging too much information
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze -
have a conference in order to talk something over
We conferred about a plan of action - unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory
How To Use confabulate In A Sentence
- Instead of silence there was some quick conversation, opinions exchanged and plots confabulated as to what was happening, going to happen, should or might happen. 2008 December « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
- Unless he is found to have lied or confabulated significantly about his POW experiences, any dissing of the POW strategy will have to be muted and indirect, something along the lines of: New Ad To Run In Minneapolis Is All About McCain's POW Past
- R. has come a long way but she still confabulates and struggles with short-term memory loss.
- I simply think she should not confabulate and reinvent her position. Election Central Debate Roundup
- The Bosnia lie is important, not because of the context of this particular lie, but because of the type of lie it is - a totally confabulated story which she stuck to until it was proven via videotape that it was false. Hillary Jokes About Bosnia Misstatement On Jay Leno
- That gets the anarchist purist Libertarians confabulated. Barr: Obama and McCain the real spoilers
- Does the person fumble, confabulate, get defensive and angry, etc.
- Broken cultures therapeutically confabulate, mythologise former ways of life, and fight off meaninglessness by shoring up crumbling identities.
- People who confabulate are confronted directly often lash out at their questioners, which in President Bush's case could be a disaster for us all. Justin Frank: Never on Sunday
- Sometimes things become confabulated in the mind ....... Blitzer: Was Obama taking aim at McCain's age?