anecdote
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A revealing anecdote from the early pages of the book: Tana turned away Barbara Sinatra’s offer to buy out the restaurant for a night for Frank Sinatra’s birthday at $25,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
He even was part of the team that saved Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an anecdote that took off during his campaign.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
He does not rely on anecdote alone but instead builds patterns from a wide sampling of Fourth of July orations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
And Wiseman relayed an amusing anecdote about Canadian Hansen, whose trip around the Moon was also his first time in space.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Under the headline “Teach the Books, Touch the Heart,” she began with an anecdote about teaching John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
Yet anecdotes like these demonstrate how some AI tools can actually help you stand out from your peers — if you know how to use them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Many anecdotes are from people who tried more conventional medicine for digestive issues and, from a place of desperation, decided to look elsewhere for solutions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Grohl was quizzed by the pupils about his favourite toothpaste, to which he answered "whitening", before the star told anecdotes including of the time he broke his leg falling off stage in 2015.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Still, it is the book’s more startling anecdotes that have fueled much of the public conversation.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 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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