anecdote
concept
4 mentions
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Aug
↑4 vs the 6 months before
Short narrative about an interesting or amusing incident
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Peak in the week of 8 Aug — 4 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentPeter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · anecdote · 1:16 · 9 Aug
…English speakers originally used an anglicized version of the book's name for similar secret or unpublished histories or biographies, but by the seventeenth century the meaning of anecdote had been broadened to cover brief and interesting or amusing tales of events or incidents.…
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · anecdote · 0:41 · 9 Aug
…The anecdote was greeted with a chorus of laughs.…
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · anecdote · 0:17 · 9 Aug
…Anecdote is a noun, and anecdote is a short narrative about an interesting, funny, or biographical incident.…
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