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- told us once again that anecdote about the dog and the bike
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“Anecdote.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anecdote. Accessed 26 January 2020.
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The first known use of anecdote was circa 1721
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