How to Use anecdotal in a Sentence

anecdotal

adjective

• The research is mixed on whether that’s true or anecdotal.
  — Barbara Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2020
• The Pro Bowl may be anecdotal but is a fair gauge of talent or lack thereof.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2025
• 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
• There’s some good, non-anecdotal evidence more teams would do well to build this way.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• 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
• They were considered by my own anecdotal research to be the best band in Birmingham for a few years there in the 1960s.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 23 Nov. 2019
• Malow has seen a lot of anecdotal evidence to back that up at the sleep clinic.
  — NBC News, 16 Feb. 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
• There was plenty of anecdotal evidence of that, and data seemed to confirm the state of mind.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
• Despite the overall support for the cause, the anecdotal evidence has not shown up in the data.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 22 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Twists with time There are several anecdotal records of peafowl distribution in the Kerala of old: or rather, the lack of it.
  — Aathira Perinchery, Quartz India, 10 Dec. 2019
• All of my evidence is anecdotal, but based on the numbers, thousands of shoppers seem to agree.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
• The idea that Black physicians have a positive impact on patients is more than anecdotal.
  — Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
• She’s also gotten plenty of anecdotal feedback, like from a Broadway producer who had to give his cat Prozac to keep it calm on road trips.
  — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 7 Feb. 2025