anecdote
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There’s something fitting about the tortilla anecdote in multicultural L.A., home to the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center — the $450-million, 200,000-square-foot expansion to the California Science Center — which now houses Endeavour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
“For those of us whose life circumstances have created options A, B, C, D, E, F and G, she might have options A and B,” El-Sayed said of the anecdote, which couldn’t be independently verified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
The scene becomes an anecdote, an action that would unnerve Vera Louise and defend him against patricide.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
Happily, this soon gives way to anecdota and reminiscence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fortunately, Benson has been so diligent in gathering papers and anecdota that he escapes from his own simplifications.
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
They break down every episode, quiz dozens of guest stars and dig up backstage anecdotes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Bambino’s story is one of many amusing anecdotes recounted by Susannah Fullerton in “Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them,” a charming catalog of felines who have helped shape Western literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
They are as obsolete as the old anecdotes in which they played their puzzling, ambiguous roles, and we have no more need for the beasts than for the stories.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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