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 This perspective suggests that structural partisan advantage and voter registration patterns were decisive factors, countering narratives that place determinative weight on late-campaign tactical gambits. — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026 Mike Marinella, an NRCC spokesperson, pushed back on Democratic midterm narratives. — Justin Papp, CNBC, 26 July 2026 They are supposed to offer more entertainment for fans, but their length means narratives stutter, rather than catching fire. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 25 July 2026 In terms of Oscar narratives, Damon has quite a few lanes open to him. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 July 2026 Armour points to two recent plays, one involving Chelsea Gray and another involving Kiah Stokes, as proof that Clark exaggerates contact and creates false narratives about opposing players. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026 Audiences are still flocking to true stories as well as fictional narratives set in an authentic past. — David Faris, TheWeek, 23 July 2026 Anniversary years can produce a flood of predictable books and commemorations, encouraging familiar narratives polished for public consumption. — Literary Hub, 23 July 2026 The real opportunity is to move beyond policies and narratives that pit specialties against one another. — Torie Bosch, STAT, 18 July 2026

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Noun

Horrific news stories about hospitals making choices about who received treatment began to shape her story.

— Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 27 July 2026
As with any prestige product or famous brand, many stories have been created around champagne, sometimes to increase the mystique, sometimes in an effort to explain things that are not easy to understand, sometimes to make complicated things simple.

— Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

Definition of stories

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Both lefties, Skubel (6 feet 3, 220) is much bigger than Dalkowski (5-11, 175) and may throw as hard, but has yet to take a hitter’s ear off, to reference one of the tall tales associated with him.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2026
High-profile cameos from Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider help these parodies retain the spirit of the original tales, and in a true indication of quality, King is rumored to have praised it.

— Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2026

Definition of tales

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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
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.

— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 23 Dec. 2025

Definition of chronologies

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Crime fiction aficionados are sure to devour this collection of six novellas from the bestselling author.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
These invasion fictions took a range of forms, from short stories and pamphlets to novellas and full-length novels, and proliferated especially in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period leading up to World War I, which brought the subgenre’s brief flourishing to an end.

— Ivan Kreilkamp, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2026

Definition of novellas

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Although consumers cannot access the private MLS directly, licensed agents can view information that is not publicly available, including showing instructions, price-change histories and other market data.

— Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Clinicians are increasingly expected to process biomarkers, genetic analyses, cancer screening results, real-time wearable data, and detailed patient histories, and to translate that information into timely, accurate diagnoses and treatment plans.

— Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 30 July 2026

Definition of histories

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Four accounts across four services were involved, and Hugging Face’s forensic timeline documents 17,600 distinct actions across four days.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Trial testimony indicated clients transferred upwards of $2 million to Engle, expecting the money to remain in those accounts until their loans were funded.

— Doug Myers, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of accounts

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But more than a year of his time (worth $420,000 per his contract) is unaccounted for in the public records the city has released, Thad and Riley found.

— Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 22 July 2026
According to the Department of Education’s own records, of 385,000 purchases made with voucher dollars, 84,000 violated the rules governing what is allowed.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

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