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Sentence count:59+1Posted:2017-01-31Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: accountjokenarrativestorytaleyarnSimilar words: antidotedotmagnetic domainand otherspolka dotneckconnectsinecureMeaning: ['ænɪkdəʊt]  n. short account of an incident (especially a biographical one). 
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31 David Bowsher, writing on paradoxical pain, opens with an anecdote about a consultant convicted of attempted murder.
32 But it was thirty-one years later and recent scholarship has questioned whether the anecdote might not have been a retrospective invention.
33 This hopefully will provide a wealth of reminiscence and anecdote, and might take place anywhere from Putney to Paris.
34 You came to understand more about Erma Bombeck at each stop, with each giggly anecdote.
35 Also good personal anecdote of Mr Gladstone cutting down small cherry tree but being unable to lie.
36 In Emerson almost every sentence is an anecdote, a picture or an epigram.
37 One small anecdote conveys the aura of hopes unfulfilled.
38 He introduced his speech with a humorous anecdote.
39 I related the anecdote, whereupon he laughed heartily.
40 The question sparks an anecdote about the Korean war.
41 He has a talent for recollection and anecdote.
42 Then he will judge the same anecdote in psychoanalytical terms , giving it a different dimension.Sentence dictionary
43 Her best anecdote is about picking a real estate agent.
44 Anecdote suggests, however fork out find their colonies are far more resistant to CCD.
45 The anecdote is meant to illustrate the ineffectiveness of the Greek leader ("You see how hopeless he is?
46 Last time in the context of the New Historicism, Stephen Greenblatt's brilliant anecdote begins with Queen Elizabeth saying, "I am Richard II, know you not that?"
47 It can be used as a pause or a colon: very handy for spinning out a mere anecdote into a playlet that's full of parody and speculation.
48 People "will latch onto anything," he added, and an anecdote or two about what is supposed to be an ideal running form often passes for evidence.
49 "I want the fact that he has gone to school here to be more than simply an anecdote," says Mr. Veitch.
50 Never misty - eyed , he keeps finding the right anecdote to support his view of American exceptionalism.
51 To make your acceptance speech memorable, use a brief but touching or humorous anecdote—from the project you are nominated for, the people you worked with, or about some little-known fact.
52 You may be able to key off something said by the introducer or open your presentation with a humorous story or anecdote that relates to the context of the meeting.
53 The image of the fox as a pest is grossly exaggerated in anecdote and folklore.
54 An anecdote may serve to point up the intensity of this enterprise loyalty in Japan.
55 A problem with alternative medicine is, of course, that of anecdote and hearsay.
56 This is a more significant anecdote than any tale of spittle.
57 For Roberts, the anecdote amounted to a parable on the pitfalls of economic forecasting.
58 To mere mortals, a graphic metaphor, a compelling anecdote, or a striking fact is worth a thousand articles in Econometrica.
59 Anecdote When a man falls into his anecdotage it is a sign for him to retire from the world.
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