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In the title story, illness and senescence conjure the specter of death for an aging narrator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
But all the AI bots can’t undo the facts of Anakin’s story.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
Asteroids may have helped deliver those ingredients to the early Earth – making the origin of life part of a much larger cosmic chemical story.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
For the uninitiated, Mad Libs is a decades-old word game in which players fill in the blanks of a prewritten story with random adjectives, nouns, and verbs before reading the surrealist results out loud.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
To tell the truth, I don’t think Lizzie would ever have told us her elephant story at all, if Karl had not been called Karl.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Can you tell the real stories from the fake ones?
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
So I have to measure how I tell those stories.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Long before satellites began monitoring its ice, Vega Island played an unexpected role in one of Antarctica's dramatic early exploration stories.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
“I’ve watched those paranormal shows and a lot of the stories can be debunked, so I tried to debunk it,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
In the coming months, the media reprinted and rehashed each other’s old stories, and ran speculative tales about the frozen northlands.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Stewart, the storied actor whose performances spanned comic book films, Shakespearean stage productions and sci-fi TV, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
How one of Wall Street’s most storied law firms ended up in chaos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The storied company is struggling with a costly shift to electric vehicles at a time of patchy demand while intense Chinese competition eats away at market share.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
A representative for Anderson confirmed to The Times that the storied singer-songwriter died in his sleep at his home in Smithville, Tenn., on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
I told him he was doing a brave thing; that he had many assets—intelligence and wit, good looks, personality—and that, as a computer geek, he was in the storied right place at the right time.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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I mean this book doesn't do a lot of war storying.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2018
Behold now! of my godhead I will make Thy senses burn with vision, storying The spirit of woman growing from loved to love.
From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie
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