another story

idiom

used to say that one thing is very different from another
She got good grades in math, but English was another story.

Examples of another story in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Whether or not the embryo would implant and eventually become a baby was another story. Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024 The Whopper is, for my money, worth the extra couple of grams of fat and carbohydrates, but that’s another story. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024 What happened in Schenectady in 1969 is another story. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024 And in another story merging technology with human health, Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink, celebrates its first successful surgery implanting a chip in a human brain. CNN, 31 Jan. 2024 But another story from this week shows why that is unlikely to be the case. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024 The news has a connection to another story in higher education: the return of the standardized test requirement at some colleges. David Leonhardt, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024 Some of his kids tell another story Feb. 1, 2024 L.A. Times Editorial Board Endorsements The Times’ editorial board operates independently of the newsroom — reporters covering these races have no say in the endorsements. Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024 But there’s another story about Carson, also involving running, that ended with him in tears. Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 27 Jan. 2024

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“Another story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/another%20story. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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