as in tale
a detailed description of a series of real or fictional events taking place over a long period of time
The saga of Beowulf recounts the hero's travels as he hunts the monster Grendel.
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Samantha Johnson received a 15-year, 8-month prison sentence from a Merced County Superior Court judge, ending a four-year legal saga that began in March 2022 with the discovery of Sophia’s decomposing body in this Central Valley city.
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Although just a snippet of the saga ahead, the trailer has already got muggles talking.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
The saga of Punch, the orphaned baby monkey Punch, the viral baby monkey, was born at Japan's Ichikawa City Zoo on July 26, 2025.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
After so many seasons of Teddy and Owen’s saga, their relationship has run its course.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Although just a snippet of the saga ahead, the trailer has already got muggles talking.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
The saga of Punch, the orphaned baby monkey Punch, the viral baby monkey, was born at Japan's Ichikawa City Zoo on July 26, 2025.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
After so many seasons of Teddy and Owen’s saga, their relationship has run its course.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saga
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Jude relocates this tale of troubled conscience to present-day Cluj-Napoca, in Transylvania, and subjects it to a corrosively cynical twist.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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My confidence was further bolstered when Zenker informed me about Beau Miles, an adventure filmmaker known for documenting his self-experiments, who, back in 2020, when an entirely different disaster descended upon us, ate only beans for 40 days (191 cans to be exact)—and lived to tell the tale.—
Ayana Underwood,
Outside,
27 Mar. 2026
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For more than four decades, the Korean immigrant has worked at the shop near Travis Air Force Base, hearing countless stories of loss, sacrifice and heartbreak from military families and service members.—
Kenny Choi,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Paxton told stories about running for office for the first time and his 2023 impeachment.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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Two Prosecutors is based on a novella by Georgy Demidov, a physicist who spent 18 years in Soviet prison camps and was rehabilitated in the late 1950s, only to then have his work seized by the authorities; most of his writings were only published following his death in 1987.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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The stories in this collection range from a novella from her post-apocalyptic Sixth World series to a science fiction piece about a conflicted student attending university on a space station.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Saga.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saga. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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