narratives

Example Sentences

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That clamp down targeted narratives that suggested studying and hard work were "useless", as well as content that promoted "world-weariness".

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Working with screenwriter Will Soodik, Parsons has gone back into that banal maze to find an uncannily mature story about loss and stagnation, about how our self-serving narratives barricade us from emotional growth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Across swaths of the humanities, social sciences, medicine and biology, some narratives have become taboo.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Store-count milestones are easy for investors to understand and often produce strong valuation narratives, especially when companies position themselves as long-term consumer penetration stories in China’s smaller cities.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Neither of these terminal narratives explains why conflict between the colonizers and the Indigenous peoples continued for three hundred years before the United States was formed.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz