This has given authors a free hand to embellish his story.
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Make sure your facts are correct and resist embellishing your story.
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The speaker who embellishes a story never seems to get to the point.
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He also embellishes his stories with onomatopoeic grunts and snarls and whooshes.
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He had not embellished the story.
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