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story (Falsehood), noun canard, concoction, deceit, deception, deliberate falsification, dissemblance, distortion, duplicity, evasion, fabrication, faithlessness, false statement, falsification, falsity, fantasy, fib, fiction, inaccuracy, incorrectness, insincerity, intentional misstatement, intentional untruth, invention, inveracity, lie, mendacium, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, perrersion of truth, pretense, prevarication, suppression of truth, untrue statement, untruth, want of fidelity

story (Narrative), noun account, adventures, article, chronicle, conte, description, dispatch, epic, fabula, history, legend, memoir, narration, news, news article, news item, newspaper report, particulars, piece, portrayal, press notice, publicity, recapitulation, recital, recitation, record, recountal, relation, report, saga, sketch, summary of facts, tale, tidings

See also: falsehood, figment, item, myth, recital, scenario, statement

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to blame
to bring to completion
to bring together
to come
to each according to his share
to enactments or statutes
to infinity
to make a long story short
to no end
to no purpose
to one’s advantage
to one’s liking
To quarter
to some extent
to that end

To Love, To Hate, To Forget, A Memory
To Love, To Hate, To Forget, A Memory...
To Love, To Have, To Forget, A Memory
To lower the yards a-portoise
TO LUCKEY
TO LUCKY
To luff round
To Madagascar and Back
To Madeira
Tó Madeira
To magnify one's self
To magnify one's self against
To make (a thing) one's business
To make a bed
To make a book
To make a card

To make a choice of
To make a circuit
To make a clean breast
To make a dead set
To make a face
To make a fool of
To make a good board
To make a lip
to make a long story short
To make a march
To make a move
To make a point
To make a point of
To make a stand
To make account
To make account of
To make an ass of one's self

To make an out
To make as if
To make away
To make away with
To make book
To make both ends meet
To make common cause with
To make conscience of
To make dainty
To make ducks and drakes
To make fair weather
To make fast
To make fire
To make foul water
To make free with
To make friends with

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