as in story
a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally
told us once again that anecdote about the dog and the bike
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Recent Examples of anecdote
That, of course, sparked a favorite Coleman anecdote.
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Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Normand recently told an anecdote on his Tuesdays with Stories!
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
For Zand, this is not an anecdote or an isolated irony, but a window into how the system itself functions.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026
The authors found that users who heavily relied on LLMs submitted essays with 50% fewer pronouns, which was representative of the larger shift toward impersonal language that included fewer anecdotes and references to human experiences.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
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Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Normand recently told an anecdote on his Tuesdays with Stories!
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
For Zand, this is not an anecdote or an isolated irony, but a window into how the system itself functions.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026
The authors found that users who heavily relied on LLMs submitted essays with 50% fewer pronouns, which was representative of the larger shift toward impersonal language that included fewer anecdotes and references to human experiences.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anecdote
Noun
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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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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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“Anecdote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anecdote. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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