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anecdote
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  • Billy Pilgrim had not heard this anecdote.  (source)
    anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
  • We traded stupid family anecdotes, like the time when Cass almost burned down the house with her Easy-Bake Oven, or when my father drank a huge glass of clam juice, thinking it was lemonade.  (source)
    anecdotes = short, true stories
  • We often pass the time amusing ourselves with anecdotes about you.  (source)
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  • My father was telling them anecdotes and expounding his own views on the situation.  (source)
    anecdotes = short, true stories
  • It's best not to become an anecdote: who'd take a cab, around here?†  (source)
    anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
  • Each one poured into the conversation his store of wise sad anecdotes and his dry regret about the race of men.  (source)
    anecdotes = short, true stories
  • For every anecdote I remember, Brad remembers two more.†  (source)
    anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
  • He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and...  (source)
    anecdotes = short, true stories
  • But just as the young lieutenant is about to tell his first anecdote, the doors to the kitchen open and three footmen appear bearing platters.†  (source)
    anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
  • His mother has an endless store of meteorological anecdotes: ball lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes.†  (source)
    anecdotes = short, true stories
  • Impatiently, I tried to beat back an anecdote Toddy Barbour had told at dinner — how, upon losing his passport (in Italy?†  (source)
    anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
  • After he completed his anecdotes, Mayor Schmoke ended our meeting.†  (source)
    anecdotes = short, true stories
  • Hermione had not cracked a smile during this anecdote, and now turned an expression of wintry disapproval upon Harry.†  (source)
    anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
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