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Confabulate (Verb)

Talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze".

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

The friends met for coffee every week to confabulate about their lives and share a few laughs.
While the boss was away, the coworkers would often confabulate around the water cooler about the weekend's sports games.
At the annual reunion, old classmates would confabulate and reminisce about their time in high school.
The group of acquaintances would occasionally get together to confabulate and talk about everything and nothing.
The retirees spent most of their mornings at the park confabulating with other seniors about the latest news and gossip.

Unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory.

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing.

After the accident, she began to confabulate memories of the event, filling in the gaps with fictional details that were not actually there.
As his dementia worsened, he started to confabulate stories about his past, claiming he had met famous people and traveled to exotic locations.
The victim's testimony was deemed unreliable as she had a tendency to confabulate, mixing reality with fantasies that had been suggested to her during questioning.
During hypnosis, the patient began to confabulate false memories of childhood trauma, which her therapist later discovered were not based on fact.
The psychologist warned that people who suffer from PTSD may confabulate memories of the traumatic event, making it difficult to discern what actually happened.

Have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action".

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

They decided to confabulate before the big meeting to make sure their presentation was in sync.
The department heads will confabulate to come up with a new marketing strategy.
The authors will confabulate with their editors to finalize the book's content.
I will confabulate with my colleagues to discuss our approach to this challenging project.
She scheduled a meeting so that the team could confabulate and iron out any last-minute details.