anecdote
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Minutes before we talked, I read this hilarious Wall Street Journal story, which featured an anecdote about Elon Musk’s Grok putting someone’s bank statement into a group Slack channel.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
As this is basically unheard of, the anecdote plays great on a press tour.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
It is an anecdote which underlines the scale of the challenge Badenoch faced at that conference, an event her allies are now with distance willing to acknowledge was make or break for her leadership.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Sherry Turkle could have sworn the writer Susan Sontag had an anecdote about death and technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
On one holiday visit, he was hanging out with old friends, telling them some anecdote about school, when a strange look suddenly clouded his friends’ eyes.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Fortunately, Benson has been so diligent in gathering papers and anecdota that he escapes from his own simplifications.
From Time Magazine Archive
Happily, this soon gives way to anecdota and reminiscence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of such anecdota there are many collections; the earliest was probably L. A. Muratori's, in 1709.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
“For the Dead Remember” sometimes gets bogged down in excessive detail, but the book is enlivened by eccentric characters, amusing anecdotes and bizarre through lines, such as the declining status of James’s teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Murphy and Levy also shared personal anecdotes about their TV mom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
To determine whether these issues go beyond anecdotes, ProPublica analyzed the data collected from every state by the CDC to look for patterns.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Even now as an adult, Tashjian said it's still difficult for her to fathom large numbers of people dying in any event, and she still gravitates toward individual anecdotes to help her understand 9/11's toll.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Chrissie eagerly took up the subject and soon both veterans were coming out with anecdotes about all the hilarious things Martin had got up to.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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