as in stories
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 narrations
Among the popular narrations are those read by Ian McKellen, Claire Danes, Dan Stevens, Stephen Fry, Anthony Heald and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
24 June 2026
The Cleveland native moved to New York in 1981 and worked as a freelance national voice-over artist until his retirement in 2021, heard on thousands of commercials, promos and narrations over those four decades.
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Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2026
The action is largely desynchronized, the activities onscreen contrasting with the voice-over narrations, with the effect of destabilizing the present tense of the movie, imbuing it with nostalgia and with longing for possible futures.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
Each episode still opens with character narrations that double as musings on existence, and some dive fully into that ache.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
One accessibility feature that no live TV service offers is audio descriptions or audible narrations of on-screen actions that would not be otherwise discernible from dialog alone.
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PC Magazine,
5 Sep. 2024
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
24 June 2026
The Cleveland native moved to New York in 1981 and worked as a freelance national voice-over artist until his retirement in 2021, heard on thousands of commercials, promos and narrations over those four decades.
—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2026
The action is largely desynchronized, the activities onscreen contrasting with the voice-over narrations, with the effect of destabilizing the present tense of the movie, imbuing it with nostalgia and with longing for possible futures.
—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
Each episode still opens with character narrations that double as musings on existence, and some dive fully into that ache.
—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
One accessibility feature that no live TV service offers is audio descriptions or audible narrations of on-screen actions that would not be otherwise discernible from dialog alone.
—
PC Magazine,
5 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for narrations
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As a coastal town shaped by generations of immigrants, Half Moon Bay now has a new art display that serves as a reminder of the people and stories that continue to define the community.
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The board was also expected to vote Friday on a new social studies curriculum that links Bible stories with American history.
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Plaintiff attorneys have built similar tools capable of producing polished demand letters, medical chronologies, and settlement ranges using massive legal datasets.
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The Southern Sinagua people, hardy folk who lived in the area from about 1150 to around 1400, drew them to mark major happenings in their world, keep chronologies of celestial events or map out favorite Verde River hotspots.
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Across the exhibition, photographs become places where personal histories intersect with broader cultural narratives, revealing how memory continues to evolve long after an image is made.
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Lee’s portrait, searching and moving, first sparked my enthusiasm about biographies as histories of eras and of minds.
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Savings accounts make people better savers The ESI estimates that some 22 million Americans are eligible for emergency savings accounts as a workplace benefit.
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Oil prices fell on the news of progress, but uncertainty over the status of the Strait of Hormuz — Iran and the US gave conflicting accounts over whether the key waterway was open over the weekend — may have slowed traffic again, The New York Times reported.
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Such false narratives are dangerous.
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Pushing those narratives forward for the time being means more than this weekend’s series against the Dodgers or next week’s four-game trek to Chavez Ravine.
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But the records do not identify Swift or Kelce or indicate whether the event is directly connected to the couple.
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Between daily high temperatures and warm overnight lows — which won't be low enough to offer much relief — more than 300 records are expected to be set by Saturday.
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Beyond resumes, DashResume includes unlimited cover letter creation, resume scoring tools, PDF exports, and the ability to create multiple versions of your resume for different industries or positions.
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Different software versions, and even different storage media, can preserve different file fragments and automatic backups.
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Over the years, through the Sports Huddle and other venues, Andelman participated in some 13,000 radio broadcasts and over 1,200 television commentaries on channels 5 and 7 as well.
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Pastors normally take hours a week to examine the original language for their text, consult commentaries, develop illustrations and examples, and deliberate about practical applications.
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“Narrations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narrations. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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