PREVARICATED Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

prevaricated

verb

past tense of prevaricate

as in lied

to make a statement one knows to be untrue during the hearings the witness was willing to prevaricate in order to protect his friend

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But in interviews with the House Judiciary Committee in 2023, both of them allegedly lied about their knowledge and involvement in those investigations.

— Ryan Lucas, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
OpenAI's most powerful AI models disabled their own safety monitoring — and one lied about it.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

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