Thesaurus results for NARRATIONS

narrations

noun

plural of narration

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. — 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

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The ByteDance app, for example, is directing users of its former AI companion service to another of its apps which solely focuses on building personalized AI characters and stories.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Here’s a quick guide to recent Star-Telegram stories every Texas driver should know.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of stories

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And so those chronologies are really important for me in each one of these investigations.

— Terry Gross, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026
Plaintiff attorneys have built similar tools capable of producing polished demand letters, medical chronologies, and settlement ranges using massive legal datasets.

— Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026

Definition of chronologies

Noun

The outage, now in its 11th day, has disrupted access to medical records, prescription histories, and scheduling systems.

— Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
For many Christians and Jews, protecting coexistence in the Holy Land is a moral imperative after their own long histories of religious persecution.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of histories

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Leeds United’s goalkeeper does not manage his social media accounts but his friends have kept him informed of the feverish reaction to his arrival.

— Beren Cross, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
There is currently over $300 billion of philanthropic capital sitting in American DAF accounts.

— Nick Allardice, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of accounts

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The comic was first published in the 1950s, but the emphasis on last-gasp winners and talismanic performances continued until the mid-1990s — with narratives that cascaded through English football culture in the decades in between.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
The event’s description and choice of speakers showed overlapping anti-government narratives used to garner sympathy for leftist and Islamic extremists alike.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of narratives

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The spending is heavily dominated by staff travel, transportation and lodging, which make up the vast majority of the top expenditures, per P-card data reviewed by the Herald after a public records request.

— Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 12 Aug. 2026
Despite the credit card records, however, the prosecutor’s office concluded in December 2017 that there was insufficient evidence – and did not pursue the case any further.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of records

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Additionally, several legal and policy commentaries stress that the absence of direct consumer refunds reflects statutory and administrative constraints rather than a deliberate effort to deny households relief.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
The statement is the latest in a series of North Korean commentaries criticizing security cooperation among the United States, South Korea and Japan.

— Reuters, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2026

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