How to Use anecdotal in a Sentence

anecdotal

adjective

• The research is mixed on whether that’s true or anecdotal.
  — Barbara Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2020
• The Pro Bowl may be anecdotal but is a fair gauge of talent or lack thereof.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2025
• At best, the answers were anecdotal, so Olezeski set out to learn more.
  — courant.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• Even in the many Reddit threads on the topic, the anecdotal evidence is mixed.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 2 May 2018
• Of course, this kind of anecdotal evidence doesn't tell us all that much.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2018
• To build up these threats, Trump latched on to anecdotal evidence as proof.
  — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2021
• And what’s clear, says Rubin, is that this is not just an anecdotal problem.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 7 Oct. 2020
• Much of this reporting comes from anecdotal success since the tech has not yet caught up.
  — Norma Watenpaugh, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• Jackman is one of 30 people who had lived on the streets in the Salem area who died in the past 14 months, according to anecdotal accounts.
  — Saphara Harrell, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2021
• There’s some good, non-anecdotal evidence more teams would do well to build this way.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• And there’s more than anecdotal evidence to back that up.
  — Garrett Snyder Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• One of the sort of benchmark stories about misuse of Wegovy is the anecdotal story about Elon Musk.
  — Sheila Cosgrove Baylis, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
• This story doesn’t need an anecdotal lead because each of us has a story of our own.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2020
• Some gays left the city, although the facts of that are more anecdotal than empirical.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
• The list is anecdotal and not evidence of any sweeping fraud.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2020
• They were considered by my own anecdotal research to be the best band in Birmingham for a few years there in the 1960s.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 23 Nov. 2019
• Malow has seen a lot of anecdotal evidence to back that up at the sleep clinic.
  — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2020
• So anyway, and a fair amount of sort of anecdotal market research on it and then the numbers sort of spoke for themselves.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 May 2024
• The thing about feelings is, the anecdotal lede is all about inciting a feeling.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 25 Mar. 2018
• There was plenty of anecdotal evidence of that, and data seemed to confirm the state of mind.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
• Despite the overall support for the cause, the anecdotal evidence has not shown up in the data.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 22 Jan. 2020
• So far, much of the evidence of the success or failure of the new ordinance is anecdotal.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• The album is full of the anecdotal bars that made Von a star, along with some of his most vulnerable moments on record.
  — Dewayne Gage, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2022
• David Casarett told the Observer that anecdotal reports of success stories tend to float to the top.
  — Cassie Cope, charlotteobserver, 20 Apr. 2018
• The Fed’s 12 districts survey business contacts eight times a year as an anecdotal gauge of the state of the economy.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2020
• And for some who are eager to conceive, the anecdotal assurance may be enough.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
• To start, the doctor wanted to hear the anecdotal evidence.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 17 May 2018
• But anecdotal evidence and a bit of mom-sense can tell us a lot about what might be happening.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
• Wolff was also keen to put anecdotal remedies—however strange—to empirical test.
  — Tom Zeller Jr. july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
• Even making up anecdotal stories about families that just never even happened.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025