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story

[stawr-ee, stohr-ee] / ˈstɔr i, ˈstoʊr i /




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How they wound up on the Yankees is the sort of old-fashioned scouting success story that rarely happens in an era where analytics have largely replaced human intuition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

A round-table meeting was organised with his family to help understand his environment, the story and the context in which he grew up.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

What began as a story about whether AI was “woke” became a story about whether the U.S. could afford to not dominate its development.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026

Winterich’s own children, she told me, treasure a recording of their great-grandmother reading a story, because they would never otherwise have heard what she sounded like.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Essa’s story had gotten me through too many hard times for me to lose faith now.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

For me, they weren’t just an extension of childhood—they were actors cast in stories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

"I want all of it: the stories, the opinions, the chaos, the tiny triumphs and the things you probably shouldn't admit on national radio."

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

I wanted to incorporate elements of gothic ghost stories, true crime, psychological thrillers all in a setting I hadn’t really shot in much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

“You have to learn how to take the big ideas and stories and compress that into a bite,” she said.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Some newspaper stories insisted they were engaged, others insisted they were not.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The Shaw brothers remain tapped in with L.A.’s art community and the city’s storied jazz history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

He cites the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, just days after his outstanding win in Monaco, one of the most dominant at that storied track for years.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The episode was heavily promoted, with one on-air spot drawing on clips with from the program’s storied past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Leaders of the Kennedy Center who have sought to add President Donald Trump's name to the storied institution say it is facing bankruptcy and possible closure in days, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

I learned quickly, however, what I was expected to do with the doll: rock it, fabricate storied situations around it, even sleep with it.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

I mean this book doesn't do a lot of war storying.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2018

Behold now! of my godhead I will make Thy senses burn with vision, storying The spirit of woman growing from loved to love.

From Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie




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