No, not fact checking sites. You, dummy. "Fabricationally."
Executive summary
The root noun "fabrication" carries two broad, well-attested meanings: a manufacturing/construction sense and a falsehood-or-deception sense, documented across major dictionaries and technical sources [1] [2] [3]. The adverbial form "fabricationally" is not attested in the provided reporting, so any claim about its codified meaning or frequency requires caution; the likely interpretation follows from the two primary senses of "fabrication" but that extrapolation is not itself confirmed in these sources [1] [3].
1. What the established words say: fabrication and fabricate split two domains
Across lexicons, "fabrication" alternately denotes the physical process of constructing items from parts—as in metal or semiconductor fabrication—and the act of inventing false information to deceive; Merriam‑Webster, Cambridge and technical sites all record these dual senses [1] [4] [2]. Engineering and manufacturing guides emphasize fabrication as the assembly and shaping of materials using processes such as cutting, welding and CNC operations, making it a precise industrial term used in contexts from metalwork to semiconductors [2] [5]. Simultaneously, general dictionaries and thesauruses treat "fabrication" as synonymous with invention of lies or stories, a usage that has long-standing literary and legal currency [6] [3].
2. Where "fabricationally" would logically come from — and the limits of that logic
Forming adverbs by adding -ally to nouns or adjectives is common in English, so readers infer that "fabricationally" would mean "in a manner related to fabrication" and could plausibly apply either to manufacturing processes or to the way something is made up or falsified [7] [8]. However, none of the provided sources includes an entry for "fabricationally" or documents its usage frequency, so treating it as an established dictionary word would be a step beyond the evidence supplied here [1] [3]. In short: plausible by morphology, but unverified by the reporting at hand.
3. Two practical senses the adverb might carry in real prose
If used in technical writing, "fabricationally" could sensibly modify processes — for example, to describe constraints or steps intrinsic to the fabrication stage of a product — mirroring the manufacturing meaning of "fabrication" found in engineering guides [2] [5]. In narrative, legal, or rhetorical contexts the adverb could instead signal that something was done in a way intended to deceive — aligning with dictionary definitions that define fabrication as a deliberate falsehood [6] [3]. Which sense a reader assigns would depend on surrounding context and the speaker's field; both interpretations have direct precedent in how the root word is used [2] [6].
4. How authorities and style guides would likely react — and what the sources don’t tell us
Dictionaries and technical references presented here document the root meanings but do not offer prescriptive guidance on nonce adverbs or novel coinages [1] [2]. Language prescriptivists might flag "fabricationally" as clumsy when a clearer alternative exists — for example, "in manufacturing" or "falsely" — while descriptivists would accept it if evidence emerged of sustained use; neither stance is directly documented in the supplied snippets, so this is an interpretive bridge beyond the sources [3] [7]. The reporting also lacks corpus data or contemporary usage examples that would show whether "fabricationally" has entered specialist or popular registers (limitation: no attestation provided).
5. Bottom line for readers encountering the word
Encountering "fabricationally" should trigger two quick checks: determine whether the context is industrial/manufacturing (lean to the “construction” reading) or rhetorical/legal (lean to the “made‑up” reading), and consider substituting a clearer, established adverb if precision matters, because authoritative dictionaries in the provided reporting document the root meanings but do not confirm this specific adverbial form [2] [6] [3]. Any stronger claim about its dictionary status, commonality or prescriptive acceptability is beyond what the supplied sources establish.