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album, collectanea, compendium, compilation, florilegium, miscellany, reader
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Blanchard's story became the subject of Mommy Dead and Dearest, a 2017 HBO documentary by Erin Lee Carr, as well as the first season of Hulu anthology series The Act, in which Blanchard was portrayed by Joey King and Dee Dee by Patricia Arquette. — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, "Gypsy Rose Blanchard Pictured With Fiancé For First Time," 15 July 2019 Black Mirror is a science fiction anthology series that explores humans' relationship to technology and the potential consequences of being careless with it. — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, "12 Shows Like "Stranger Things" You Should Make Your Next Binge-Watch," 12 July 2019 In the meantime, Kool & the Gang is developing a series of Boondock-like animated vignettes about their career, a documentary and a giant anthology of all of its recordings. — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, "Kool & the Gang, Sheila E., Angelique Kidjo and More Heat Up 2019 Playboy Jazz Festival's Opening Day," 9 June 2019 This anthology, drawing from the New York Public Library’s archives, chronicles the fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and celebrates the activists who spearheaded it. — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, "10 new LGBTQ books to celebrate Pride month: Tan France, 'Gentleman Jack,' 'Gender Queer'," 9 June 2019 Its fiftieth anniversary has brought a flood of attempts to recapture it—local, national, and transnational histories, anthologies, memoirs, even performance art and musical theater. — The New York Review of Books, "Jackson Lears," 7 Feb. 2019 In a recent anthology, edited by Lisa Yaszek and called The Future is Female!, 25 science fiction stories written by women between 1920 and 1969 imagine worlds very different from our own. — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, "The Best Sci Fi Movies of 2018 That Starred Women," 28 Nov. 2018 Locke’s 1925 anthology, The New Negro, functioned as a celebration of his era in black art, intellect, and society. — Constance Grady, Vox, "We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2018. Here’s what we thought.," 15 Nov. 2018 The anthology, co-edited with Stephanie Feldman, is Who Will Speak for America? — John Timpane, Philly.com, "Nathaniel Popkin is a Philly author with a rare double play - two new books at once," 11 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'anthology.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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