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 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 Tobacco industry jobs in future Cuba Conversations at the home of plastic surgeon Jorge Suárez Menéndez, the night’s host, continued amid anecdotes of how many of the families’ businesses were founded by immigrants, both in Cuba and the United States. —

Sarah Moreno updated April 1, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026 The comments section quickly became a communal storytelling space, with viewers swapping anecdotes about pets who seemed to recognize languages, accents, or phrases from earlier homes. —

Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026 But the initial reports and anecdotes that have managed to slip through suggest that the civilian death toll from the intense bombing campaigns on and around dense residential areas has been extensive. —

Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026 The authors found that users who heavily relied on LLMs submitted essays with 50% fewer pronouns, which was representative of the larger shift toward impersonal language that included fewer anecdotes and references to human experiences. —

Jared Perlo, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026 Minnelli's memoir is packed with anecdotes from throughout her many years in showbiz. —

Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026 Is evidence catching up with anecdotes about GLP-1s and addiction? —

Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for anecdotes

Noun

Often, this is a useful guideline, and limits, in general, are very much the friend of the fiction writer, but there are certain stories that benefit from a sense of instability.

— Nina Mesfin, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
As is common in the policing profession, officers and supervisors sometimes share experiences and stories for a variety of reasons.

— Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026