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a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally
told us once again that anecdote about the dog and the bike
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Recent Examples of anecdote
The short is also a surprisingly intimate project, sprinkled with anecdotes and gentle nods to Zellweger’s personal life and the wider team’s, too.
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2025
An anecdote in which Pepys was forced by circumstance to defecate in a chimney doesn’t not feel like something McNally could one day cop to.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Never a fan of this kind of rhetoric—with which she and the rest of the country had been bombarded for years—Michiko inwardly bristled at the anecdote before the running dialogue changed tack to rumors about the new‑type bomb the Americans had just dropped on Hiroshima.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
And Ron Rakow told a great anecdote about his job interview with Jerry Garcia.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2025
An anecdote in which Pepys was forced by circumstance to defecate in a chimney doesn’t not feel like something McNally could one day cop to.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Never a fan of this kind of rhetoric—with which she and the rest of the country had been bombarded for years—Michiko inwardly bristled at the anecdote before the running dialogue changed tack to rumors about the new‑type bomb the Americans had just dropped on Hiroshima.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
And Ron Rakow told a great anecdote about his job interview with Jerry Garcia.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anecdote
Noun
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This story has been updated to include more information.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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This story covers travel in the first six months of the Braun administration.—
Brittany Carloni,
IndyStar,
23 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The tale of the wreck On what would end up being its last voyage, the Carruthers stopped at Fort William, Ontario, now Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior, and picked up 371,000 bushels of wheat.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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In the wide field of true-crime podcasts, tales of elaborate scams and long cons are a growing subset.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Anecdote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anecdote. Accessed 2 Sep. 2025.
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