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as in story
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 tale
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 narrative
Up 2-1 on Vegas, Minnesota has a chance to change that narrative on Saturday at Xcel Energy Center.
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2025
The back-and-forth start followed Beijing’s pointed denial of any ongoing trade negotiations with the U.S., undercutting a key narrative that had fueled Wednesday’s rally.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2025
Each stand-alone episode features different narrative and animation, produced by different animation studios from around the world.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, Democrats, whose votes may not be required to propel Trump’s budget into law, are nonetheless practiced at pummeling the majority party using a political and up-to-the-minute economic narrative.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2025
The back-and-forth start followed Beijing’s pointed denial of any ongoing trade negotiations with the U.S., undercutting a key narrative that had fueled Wednesday’s rally.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2025
Each stand-alone episode features different narrative and animation, produced by different animation studios from around the world.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, Democrats, whose votes may not be required to propel Trump’s budget into law, are nonetheless practiced at pummeling the majority party using a political and up-to-the-minute economic narrative.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for narrative
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In this story: hair, Virginie Moreira; makeup, Ammy Drammeh; grooming, Yuko Fredriksson; braiding, Lorraine Dublin, Angela Torio Rivera; manicurist, Adam Slee; tailor, Judith Grant.—
Malick Bodian,
Vogue,
24 Apr. 2025
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Top stories About the writer Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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But the most sobering cautionary tale comes from 1894, when a lighthouse keeper’s pet cat named Tibbles was introduced to Stephens Island in New Zealand.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Comments On Swift Horses is rife with drama — a tale of a love triangle between a young woman, Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones), her Korean War veteran husband Lee (Will Poulter), and his iconoclastic brother Julius (Jacob Elordi).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Instead, Hubris contains numerous errors concerning chronology, geography, and election details and even misidentifies NATO’s founding members.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Apr. 2025
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Hood never shows this chronology to Helen, but lays it out—with some redactions—for the reader.—
Bekah Waalkes,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
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Penned in 1942 on Long Island and published a year later, Saint Exupéry’s timeless novella feels more relevant than ever.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Most Carmen opera or ballet productions draw the story from the 1854 novella by French writer Prosper Mérimée — and generally are set in 19th century Spain.—
Lisa Vernon Sparks,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Apr. 2025
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But below the elegant tile floors, there’s another, darker layer of history.—
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
30 Apr. 2025
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That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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In search of a motive, detectives got a search warrant for the victim’s CSUN email account, court records show.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
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In a photo shared to her Instagram account on Friday, May 2, the new mom sat with her partner Ken Urker on a sofa together before the couple headed out for weekend activities.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
3 May 2025
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Treadwell’s 100-plus hours of footage with his sobering narration.—
Boutayna Chokrane,
Wired News,
22 Apr. 2025
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The clip opens with different scenes of octopuses and octopus fans, with Waller-Bridge's narration describing the dramatic world Octopus!—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Trump's favorability with Americans overall has slipped recently, hitting a record low for any president in their first 100 days going back to Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
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The judge was highly critical of the administration's process of terminating these students' immigration records and visas, taking particular notice of the sweeping nature of the mass terminations.—
Soo Rin Kim,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Narrative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narrative. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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