nonstory

noun

non·sto·ry ˌnän-ˈstȯr-ē

plural nonstories

: something that is not a story

a nonstory with no clear plot

specifically : an event or occurrence that is not newsworthy enough to be a news story

What had been an obscure Canadian nonstory, just another chapter in an endless saga of debate and dispute, suddenly had become world news. —

Guy Lawson

Examples of nonstory in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web However, in a new interview with Variety, Nicola shut down the reports as a nonstory. —

Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2022 Her work became increasingly about voice: looking for the line between voice and nonvoice, speech and nonspeech, story and nonstory. —

New York Times, 6 Oct. 2021 Telling you this nonstory feels excessive, embarrassing, in poor taste, even though death and grieving often feel that way, too. —

Lidija Haas, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019 The ClipCast podcast broke this nonstory over the weekend. —

Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019 One reporter trying to distort 18 yr old nonstory to sow seeds of division. —

Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 14 Feb. 2018

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