Thesaurus results for NARRATIVES

narratives

noun

plural of narrative

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 The series intricately weaves personal stories with broader cultural and political narratives, demonstrating the power of art and activism, and has already garnered significant acclaim, making its way into educational curricula. —

Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026 Many of the stories in the book are tragic Icarus narratives, featuring acts of rebellion that succeed in one brief ecstatic burst, and then resoundingly fail. —

Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026 Campaign narratives can change. —

Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026 Historical narratives are constructed to serve the most powerful, but even the most modest person-to-person storytelling can be a meaningful form of witness and resistance. —

Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026 Robert Sparrow, a philosopher at Monash University in Australia who is among the first to have written about the ethics of robotics, argues that robots carry two competing racial narratives. —

Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026 Detroit leveraged the draft in 2024 not just to host a massive party, but to also aggressively counter persistent narratives of urban decay and to highlight investments made in the city. —

Tim Derdenger, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026 The show weaves two parallel narratives with offbeat humor and an unexpected heartwarming realism. —

Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026 Each run-up brought new believers, new narratives, and higher prices. —

Doug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026

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Inside the media center, rows of workstations equipped with laptops and charging points allow reporters to file stories.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
Filmmakers have used the Civil War as a setting for many decades now, inspiring stories of epic military battles, romantic melodramas, and even satires, from sweeping Best Picture winners like Gone With the Wind (1939) to revisionist Westerns like Django Unchained (2012).

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026