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Noun
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Apparently all mothers, even surrogate mothers, were alike, but at least Adele no longer had to fear monitory parables from her real mother.—
Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026 -
On Sundays, O’Neal’s father preached hope from the pulpit, stories of his family intertwined with morals and truths and parables.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Syfy-channel TV show Channel Zero uses some of the best known of these fables as fodder for serialized storytelling.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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That Niall finds Ruben so alluring is natural to Gadd, who believes the notion of a valiant male figure has been bred into everyone via fables and fairy tales.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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What Research Says About Extended Career Breaks Beyond personal anecdotes, there’s a growing body of research suggesting that long breaks from work can pay off.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
28 May 2026
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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.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
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Please stop wasting everyone’s time with these false narratives.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
28 May 2026
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Customer segments go undiscovered, brand narratives miss the people they were designed to reach, and high-capacity talent sits underutilized because no one created the conditions for their contribution to surface.—
Mary Hemphill,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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