as in lie
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
did you really see a bear, or are you telling us another one of your fairy tales?
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Recent Examples of fairy tale
The Detroit Tigers are off to a dream start after their fairy tale run to the American League playoffs last season.
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
She was twice expelled from convent schools, and favored reading Irish fairy tales, Lewis Carroll, and Beatrix Potter over learning how to become the perfect debutante.
—Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2025
With her son, Daniel Kairys, MD, a general surgeon and a natural storyteller, Kairys began crafting children’s stories, inspired by her global travels for her work in maternal and child healthcare and her childhood love of fairy tales.
—Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Joe is a grown man who unironically believes in fairy tales.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
She was twice expelled from convent schools, and favored reading Irish fairy tales, Lewis Carroll, and Beatrix Potter over learning how to become the perfect debutante.
—Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2025
With her son, Daniel Kairys, MD, a general surgeon and a natural storyteller, Kairys began crafting children’s stories, inspired by her global travels for her work in maternal and child healthcare and her childhood love of fairy tales.
—Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Joe is a grown man who unironically believes in fairy tales.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fairy tale
Noun
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Like it or not, businesses and thought leaders operate in an information ecosystem where willful lies and concocted conspiracies are amplified by algorithms.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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But to see American history as simply a narrative of heroism would be a lie unbecoming a great nation.—
James T. Kloppenberg,
Time,
28 May 2025
Noun
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The story splits its time between young Wash's misadventures and the older, adult Wash's tale of first love with a biracial woman, Tanna (Iola Evans), and a brush with danger in the form of bounty hunter, Willard (Billy Boyd).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
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It's been a tale of two companies with different policies, as Costco, which resisted public pressure to roll back its diversity plans, saw its 16th consecutive week of rising foot traffic that week.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
Noun
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These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
31 May 2025
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Wisely, the studio is keeping the story in the same universe by involving both Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso and Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han while starting a new story with Ben Wang’s Li Fong.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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“Fairy tale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fairy%20tale. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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