All 4 Uses
anecdote
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Never Let Me Go
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- The veterans were never slow coming out with funny anecdotes about characters they'd met on trips to the White Mansion or to Poplar Farm; but they hardly ever mentioned students who, right up until just before we'd arrived, must have been their intimate friends.†
p. 132.1anecdotes = short, true stories
- Chrissie eagerly took up the subject and soon both veterans were coming out with anecdotes about all the hilarious things Martin had got up to.†
p. 149.9 *
- After a while, without taking her gaze off him, Ruth started on a rambling anecdote about someone or other, a donor at her centre, someone we'd never heard of, and all the time she kept looking at Tommy, the gentle smile never leaving her face.†
p. 221.6anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
- Perhaps because I was getting bored by her anecdote, perhaps because I wanted to help Tommy out, I interrupted after a minute or so, saying: "Yeah, okay, we don't need to hear every last thing about her."†
p. 221.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(anecdote) a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)