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as in stories
a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened
wrote a witty, chatty narrative of all the happenings at the party
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as in tales
a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel
in such narratives as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," Edgar Allan Poe essentially created the modern detective story
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Recent Examples of narratives
Their position ignored the Ukrainian perspective on the issue, thus excluding Ukrainians as the affected party from understanding and communicating current and historical narratives.
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Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
In Georgia as in Minnesota, where administration statements about the fatal shootings have been contradicted by video evidence, its actions are underpinned by false narratives.
—Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Whether this pattern of job creation will continue with AI, whether AI represents a different form of job destruction and creation, is an ongoing subject of dueling narratives.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The women were telling Lisa false narratives about me.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
In recent months, market commentary has split the move into two distinct narratives.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
The three gave similar narratives, according to court documents.
—Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2026
Instead, the meeting was dominated by industry advocates focused on personal narratives tied to the war on drugs.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Following the fatal confrontation, two distinct narratives began to emerge.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
In Georgia as in Minnesota, where administration statements about the fatal shootings have been contradicted by video evidence, its actions are underpinned by false narratives.
—Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Whether this pattern of job creation will continue with AI, whether AI represents a different form of job destruction and creation, is an ongoing subject of dueling narratives.
—Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The women were telling Lisa false narratives about me.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 Jan. 2026
In recent months, market commentary has split the move into two distinct narratives.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
The three gave similar narratives, according to court documents.
—Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2026
Instead, the meeting was dominated by industry advocates focused on personal narratives tied to the war on drugs.
—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
Following the fatal confrontation, two distinct narratives began to emerge.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for narratives
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Michael Venos, a 46-year-old database administrator from Roxbury, New Jersey, has been collecting stories of Groundhog Day events and their weather predictions for about a decade.—
Mark Scolforo,
Fortune,
31 Jan. 2026
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Her goal is to improve the health of our community through easy-to-understand facts and real people's stories.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Jan. 2026
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These are human stories first and foremost, tales of tragedy, struggle over adversity, and bittersweet romance.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
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His whimsical and precisely-staged tales play on the artifice of cinema as much as on the heightened emotions of their characters.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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This requires a set of skills to interrogate the past by probing deeply, constructing and reconstructing chronologies, and contemplating counterfactuals in which different decisions might have significantly altered subsequent events.—
John T. Shaw,
Twin Cities,
5 Nov. 2025
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This anthology duo features interconnected novellas by Quinn, Suzanne Enoch, Karen Hawkins, and Mia Ryan.—
Sara Netzley,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Jan. 2026
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The Irish actor, 29, leads A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a new Game of Thrones spinoff series based on a series of novellas by Martin, 77, that follows naïve knight Ser Duncan the Tall (Claffey) and his squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell).—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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Looking ahead, several companies with histories of beating analysts’ estimates will issue their quarterly reports next week, including Western Alliance and F5.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
24 Jan. 2026
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Commonly framed and told histories of Indigenous women such as Pocahontas and Sacagawea, who are associated with famous expeditions by white English settlers in North America, are clear examples.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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Some users, like Stalter, are deleting their accounts and leaving the app altogether (though some have also had trouble deleting their accounts, Fiesler noted).—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Video footage and eyewitness accounts have raised serious questions about the justification for lethal force.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Gold and silver prices fell sharply on Friday, snapping a powerful rally that has seen the metals shatter multiple records this year.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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Who’s calling for those records from Wolfman Jack?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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But there’s nothing stopping us from organizing more versions of Oakland 2011, when tens of thousands—including labor leaders and union members—drew on their own history to join in a day of action that shut down the city’s downtown business district and its busy port.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
31 Jan. 2026
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After giving the timeless Air Force 1 sneaker a major upgrade which also honored the late Kobe Bryant during summer 2025, Nike is set to deliver even more versions of the enhanced model this year.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Narratives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narratives. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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