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fabricator

[ fab-ri-key-ter ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who makes things by art or skill and labor:
He’d spent some time as a fabricator of high-end military circuit boards.
a person or company that makes something by assembling parts or sections; manufacturer:
With its lapped metal panels, the complexity of the design required top skills, and the fabricator Purly Manufacturing did an outstanding job.
a person who devises or invents something, especially a lie or a fictional narrative or character:
The document paints him as a serial exaggerator and fabricator rather than a heroic whistleblower.
a person who produces something fake or counterfeit:
The fabricators of these forged archeological artifacts are still fooling some people even today.

First recorded in 1600–10; from Latin fabricātor, equivalent to fabricat(e) ( def ) + -or ²( def )

One of them even warned that he suspected Curveball was a fabricator who had created his story out of whole cloth.

Nevertheless, there was something taking, to my imagination, in the notion of being the fabricator of my own fortune.

I am afraid that we are all given to exaggerate very much, but Mr. Turnbull is the champion fabricator.

But this was a pure legend, probably the only one of its obscure fabricator which would reach posterity.

Some of the incidental details given are such as no fabricator would insert.

Hume was not, indeed, himself the fabricator of the tale; but he had not any historical authority.

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