as in story
a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened
a narration that vastly overstates her minor role in this international affair
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Recent Examples of narration
Patrick Gibson plays Dexter in that series, with Hall providing voiceover narration as Dexter’s inner monologue.
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Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025
More than once Snook squabbles with one of her video incarnations over ownership of the narration.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Similar in length and narration to the aforementioned schoolyard scene, a long stretch of time is afforded to this sequence.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
In a few of these, her presence was still felt through voiceover narration.
—Jane Lacroix, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025
More than once Snook squabbles with one of her video incarnations over ownership of the narration.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Similar in length and narration to the aforementioned schoolyard scene, a long stretch of time is afforded to this sequence.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
In a few of these, her presence was still felt through voiceover narration.
—Jane Lacroix, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for narration
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Forbes Daily: Join over 1 million Forbes Daily subscribers and get our best stories, exclusive reporting and essential analysis of the day’s news in your inbox every weekday.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Despite some lofty promises from Chrissy and people’s overall wariness of Mitch and his story, the opportunity to eliminate Sai was just too tempting.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
10 Apr. 2025
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Your Experience section is designed to show your work chronology.—
William Arruda,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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With each option, the chronology of individual steps in the process changes.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
11 Mar. 2025
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The February letter from the Department of Education is a pretty clear signal that even modest efforts to address racial inequality (forget about the history of discrimination, forget about even mentioning the subject of race) are no longer on the table where the wealthy and the powerful now dine.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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The history of school desegregation—the history of Brown after Brown—is well known.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, Democrats, whose votes may not be required to propel Trump’s budget into law, are nonetheless practiced at pummeling the majority party using a political and up-to-the-minute economic narrative.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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Taking narratives to a whole new level, Split Fiction casts you and your significant other as Mio and Zoe, a pair of down-on-their-luck writers who become trapped in a combination of their stories (sci-fi meets fantasy) due to an accident at a groundbreaking literary tech firm.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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Video of the moment was viewed more than 700,000 times on TCU’s official X account and millions of times total on social media.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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As of reporting, the announcement hasn’t made its way to any other official Nintendo social media account or its YouTube channel.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2025
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Sheeran has made some pop-up appearances recently, busking in front of surprised passers-by, while also previewing tracks from the forthcoming record for tastemakers.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2025
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Pratt was arrested this January on a warrant, court records show, and has remained in the Broward County jail since.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2025
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Ironwood also demonstrates a 4-5x performance improvement across multiple operational functions compared to the previous version 6 Trillium TPU architecture.—
Maribel Lopez,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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My body has changed—and is changing, like it's being slowly replaced by a similar but slightly less cooperative version.—
Liz Krieger,
Allure,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Narration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narration. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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