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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
- Neuropsychological evidence points towards our tendency to confabulate stories that we believe to be true in order to fit together disparate pieces of information.
- What there is, is a difficult political issue now that we have discovered the VPOTUS and his associates broke this law—not for a kidnapped child, but to justify the imminent invasion of Iraq with confabulated links between Saddam and 9/11. The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture:
- People who confabulate experience their false memories as true.
- This was confabulated into Christian mythology, the converted Norse intertwining the character with one of the first saints of the region, Saint Nicholas.
- Henry Sidgwick, you are not only highly selective in the questions you choose to answer, you evade answering the questions, prevaricate and confabulate. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
- A synthetic memory of an earthquake would automatically be supplemented by confabulated but plausible cliques. World Wide Mind
- In order to justify their behavior they confabulate, make up a variety of lies in order to manage real and imagined questioning. Justin Frank: John McCain: Suffering from Irregularity
- Some people purchased them, and, when asked why, were quite ready to volunteer one confabulated answer or another.
- (This sparked debate in the office as the Holy Bible, as commented on recently by me, is available in over 2000 languages: something must exclude it from the running - probably its confabulated nature.) Web Translations » Blog Archive » Most translated document?
- In this materialist view, people perceive God’s existence because their brains have evolved to confabulate belief systems.