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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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 Research by Harvard Business School Professor Ranjay Gulati found that courageous and effective leaders create positive narratives that guide them through chaos, often recasting their work as a mission. — Olivia Ludington, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026 Those narratives, of course, were only knowable after the fact. — Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026 The site has become what the French historian Pierre Nora called a lieu de mémoire, a place of memory, where the past resonates with particular intensity and narratives of French national identity are continually renegotiated. — Maurice Samuels, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026 Such acknowledgment matters, particularly when historical injustices have been repeatedly minimized or excluded from official narratives. — Brooke N. Newman, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2026 Regular people who would otherwise have no sway over national narratives are now powerful enough individually to alter the shape of someone else’s public image, celebrity or not. — Ivy Wolk, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026 The most famous of their early medieval narratives in Old English is the tale of Beowulf. — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026 Up to 58 percent of chivalric narratives written in Old French before around 1340 may have been lost. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026 But what sticks is the potential of fanfic narratives, born of the desire to see resonant characters in new dynamics and situations. — Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2026

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Harmless stories, dangerous behavior Some datasets explored seemingly ordinary subjects, including beekeeping, professional wrestling, and historical public-health cases.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
Pedestrians can peer down through a 2- to 3-foot-wide crevice and see stories down to the railroad tracks.

— Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of stories

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In your garden-variety ghost story, the protagonist is generally the haunted, not the haunt, and the tales themselves are generally about how unhappy the protagonist is to find he or she is haunted.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
Soon, tales of loss, memory and hopeful closure become central to the buildup, along with worried feelings of climbers’ loved ones.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of tales

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One of the best actors working today, Coon essentially plays two different sides of Rita with astonishing range across these chronologies, portraying the past and the present of her character through distinctive markers.

— Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
And so those chronologies are really important for me in each one of these investigations.

— Terry Gross, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of chronologies

Noun

Two parallel histories have shaped electronic music; one runs through clubs and the other through conservatories.

— Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2026
Bullish investors say that the tech leaders have long histories of operations, and legacy businesses that are dominant enough to prop them up for the foreseeable future.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of histories

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Review your financial accounts regularly Check your bank statements, investment accounts, retirement accounts and payment apps for unfamiliar transactions.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Early accounts of grassroots democracy in India describe how higher-caste landowners controlled the votes of their lower-caste dependents, sometimes even marking ballots that the voters had to authenticate with their thumbprints.

— Asim Ali, Time, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of accounts

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Police charged 52-year-old Mooresville resident Rod Moskowitz with assault with a deadly weapon on a government official, court records show.

— Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2026
The agents seized records and electronic devices, looking for evidence of unspecified criminal behavior.

— Barton Gellman, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

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