Thesaurus results for ANECDOTES

anecdotes

noun

variants also anecdota

plural of anecdote

as in stories

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 anecdotes That the precise prose of this account, and numerous other anecdotes, is written with the kind of titanic certainty that would sway a jury is expected; what’s surprising, however, is Crenshaw’s candor in revealing her vulnerability and disappointments. —

Literary Hub, 7 May 2026 Convinced by anecdotes of farmworkers who had contracted cowpox and not smallpox, Edward Jenner hypothesized the cowpox protected them. —

USA Today, 6 May 2026 Cutesy anecdotes alternated with triumphs and tragedies—a school district rescued from a ransomware gang, an iPad salvaged from a plane crash. —

Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 Following the announcement of Lilly’s acquisition, Roberts shared these anecdotes along with the original investment memo and slide deck once used to get Kelonia — then called Elcano Therapeutics — off the ground. —

Allison Deangelis, STAT, 20 Apr. 2026 Over the course of this interview in Boulder, Baldwin enthralled an audience of hundreds with colorful anecdotes, vocal impressions and physical comedy bits. —

Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026 Some users shared comedic takes on the matter, while others shared their own anecdotes of similar situations. —

Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026 Hill is the one consistently going for the laughs as the legal eagle who has seen it all and likes to share the anecdotes. —

Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026 O’Brien, 86, is a gleeful raconteur who has worked as a director in the theater since the 1960s, picking up four Tony Awards along the way, including for Hairspray, and has enough anecdotes to fill at least two memoirs. —

Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2026

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The ground zero of all stories of literary fandom begins and ends with Misery, whose characters were immortalized by Kathy Bates and James Caan in the movie adaptation of this psychological thriller.

— Laura Zigman, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
During Monday’s meeting, VanTrust Vice President of Development David Rezac showed renderings of the new office building — a 450,000 square foot building that will feature three amenity decks, 6 stories of parking, an outdoor plaza space, and a retreat center with an amphitheater.

— Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2026