anecdote
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈænɪkdoʊt/
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anécdota
- He often tells an interesting anecdote to illustrate his point during lectures.
- tell an anecdote
- share an anecdote
- recount an anecdote
But here you want an interesting anecdote about the JFK.
- But here you want an interesting anecdote about the JFK.
- But first and foremost, anecdotes are not data.
- Just one final anecdote since I I have a minute left.
- And, and, and she, she related the anecdote that we were on a date.
- I'll share a personal anecdote as a as a form of question.
- And so here's another just anecdote about the way things work.
- And I'll tell you a very, very interesting anecdote that happened to me this year.
- Now let's come up with a very basic anecdote that supports this from my personal life.
- Now, where what I want to close with is this interesting anecdote that he tells.
- And most of that is built on stories or anecdotes.
- But when I learned that it's mostly built on anecdotes, I said, man, we're in business.
- And so I had her bring in a lot of anecdotes.
- Data is not the plural of anecdote.
- Because he writes these stories that are pretty short, you know, and they're anecdotes, too, actually.
- And just a little anecdote to send us off.
- This isn't an anecdote of the one who got away.
Examples
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And I'll tell you a very, very interesting anecdote that happened to me this year.
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That's an amusing anecdote about a drug deal.
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And just a little anecdote to send us off.
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Just one final anecdote since I I have a minute left.
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Now, where what I want to close with is this interesting anecdote that he tells.
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Yeah, well anyway, it makes for a fun anecdote.
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"It's very difficult for organizations to build policies and take action based on anecdote," he said.
Academic text (2017) -
It's full of hilarious anecdotes about kids doing crazy things.
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And now, in conclusion, I'd like to tell you a humorous anecdote.
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For an hour, at the boy's urging, they exchanged anecdotes from their life.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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2.7
An interesting tale about events that makes people laugh
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2.7
An account of events that really happened
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1.9
A short story that makes people laugh
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3.3
A short story that makes people laugh
Idioms
How Amusing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anecdote comes from the old Greek anekdota, meaning 'things not published'. The an- part means 'not' and the rest is related to edition, which means 'published', so an anecdote is a short, often private story you tell to interest people.