as in story
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
His sense of crafting anecdotes into top-tier material and knowing how to use his sweet-molasses pacing to calmly detonate a joke is damn near peerless.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
Instead of relying on isolated anecdotes, brands can instead identify meaningful patterns.
—Guy Yehiav, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
That last anecdote was offered by the mother of Jane Doe 8, a girl in Eagle, Idaho who dated O’Connor’s son at some point during the period of the parties and who along with her twin sister, Jane Doe 9, once visited their Los Gatos home.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
This isn’t the first time that Blunt has shared the anecdote, having previously told the story with Cruise present on a 2014 episode of The Graham Norton Show.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
Instead of relying on isolated anecdotes, brands can instead identify meaningful patterns.
—Guy Yehiav, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
That last anecdote was offered by the mother of Jane Doe 8, a girl in Eagle, Idaho who dated O’Connor’s son at some point during the period of the parties and who along with her twin sister, Jane Doe 9, once visited their Los Gatos home.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
This isn’t the first time that Blunt has shared the anecdote, having previously told the story with Cruise present on a 2014 episode of The Graham Norton Show.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anecdote
Noun
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Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
30 May 2026
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This two-story house has three bedrooms and four bathrooms.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
30 May 2026
Noun
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There is a little more to it, as the tale of the boy from Yonkers has some of the same up-and-down flair of the Knicks and Mets during his Hall of Fame career.—
Andrew Marchand,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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And hey, if this movie racks up the views, perhaps the next tale will make it to theaters, with bigger co-stars to boot.—
Mark Meszoros,
Twin Cities,
29 May 2026
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“Anecdote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anecdote. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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