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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
Previous books chronicling rock scenes, such as Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life or Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me, were full of juicy anecdotes set in tour buses and rock clubs.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
During a post-match conversation with Tennis TV at the Mexican Open in 2023, Paul thanked his team, including Lorenze, before sharing a funny pre-game anecdote.
—Katie Mannion, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The anecdote came up as part of a conversation with Last Meals host Josh Scherer about the importance of being an active member in one's community.
—Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Frost is inviting us to take his eccentric enterprise as a metaphor, to find a philosophical, even spiritual dimension in this anecdote of redirected attention.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
During a post-match conversation with Tennis TV at the Mexican Open in 2023, Paul thanked his team, including Lorenze, before sharing a funny pre-game anecdote.
—Katie Mannion, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The anecdote came up as part of a conversation with Last Meals host Josh Scherer about the importance of being an active member in one's community.
—Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Frost is inviting us to take his eccentric enterprise as a metaphor, to find a philosophical, even spiritual dimension in this anecdote of redirected attention.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anecdote
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Advertisement Then, in February, after an early version of the site was ready, a story about Shield Seniors and Tejasvi appeared in the Dallas Observer, bringing her to the attention of the people at AARP.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The tale is pilfered from the Aeneid, but Virgil would blench to see the curtain rise on Jupiter, dandling Ganymede, a beautiful boy, upon his knee.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet imagined the relationship between the Bard and his spouse as an intimate tale of lust, compromise, joy, resentment, support, and sorrow.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Anecdote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anecdote. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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