How to Use anecdotal in a Sentence

anecdotal

adjective

• At best, the answers were anecdotal, so Olezeski set out to learn more.
  — courant.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• To build up these threats, Trump latched on to anecdotal evidence as proof.
  — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2021
• And what’s clear, says Rubin, is that this is not just an anecdotal problem.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 7 Oct. 2020
• Much of this reporting comes from anecdotal success since the tech has not yet caught up.
  — Norma Watenpaugh, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• Jackman is one of 30 people who had lived on the streets in the Salem area who died in the past 14 months, according to anecdotal accounts.
  — Saphara Harrell, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2021
• And there’s more than anecdotal evidence to back that up.
  — Garrett Snyder Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• One of the sort of benchmark stories about misuse of Wegovy is the anecdotal story about Elon Musk.
  — Sheila Cosgrove Baylis, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
• This story doesn’t need an anecdotal lead because each of us has a story of our own.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2020
• Some gays left the city, although the facts of that are more anecdotal than empirical.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
• The list is anecdotal and not evidence of any sweeping fraud.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2020
• So anyway, and a fair amount of sort of anecdotal market research on it and then the numbers sort of spoke for themselves.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 May 2024
• So far, much of the evidence of the success or failure of the new ordinance is anecdotal.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• The album is full of the anecdotal bars that made Von a star, along with some of his most vulnerable moments on record.
  — Dewayne Gage, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2022
• The Fed’s 12 districts survey business contacts eight times a year as an anecdotal gauge of the state of the economy.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2020
• And for some who are eager to conceive, the anecdotal assurance may be enough.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
• But anecdotal evidence and a bit of mom-sense can tell us a lot about what might be happening.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
• The study offers anecdotal evidence of these problems from around the world.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Wired, 13 May 2021
• All of the above merely amounts to a compendium of signs and anecdotal evidence that point to the strong likelihood of the return.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 3 Apr. 2022
• And although this is purely anecdotal, the treatment technique has helped friends of mine.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 6 May 2021
• Mario Williams, a civil rights lawyer in Atlanta, said Flores has a strong case because his claims are not just anecdotal.
  — NBC News, 3 Feb. 2022
• In thousands of anecdotal stories, this is exactly the case.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• There are plenty of anecdotal examples to back up each side.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 3 June 2021
• Plus, there’s a lot of anecdotal support for this hack: Dr. Baker says many of her patients swear by it, for example.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 20 Mar. 2024
• What evidence did exist as to the unique dangers of switchblades at the time bans were imposed appears to have been anecdotal.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• That may be purely anecdotal, but nonetheless the stage was set for a truly special Test match.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• There have been anecdotal reports that pets or livestock have been sickened.
  — Patrick Orsagos, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• There were anecdotal accounts of airplanes trailing a fine white spray.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
• Data on that is not yet in, but anecdotal reports suggest there was no such decline.
  — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2020
• More and more anecdotal stories about Mucinex babies have followed on TikTok.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
• Any radical rethink of this happy self-reinforcing cycle in 2025 would be a tricky challenge for the market to face, though the evidence of such a shift in thinking is still mostly anecdotal and incomplete.
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 12 Feb 2025