anecdotes

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“Isolated anecdotes do not fairly describe the full guest experience.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Stories that rest on personal anecdotes always leave space for doubt, which could make the Times piece more of a Rorschach test for one’s existing politics than an election-shifting revelation.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

"But everywhere I go, people remind me of him and tell me anecdotes."

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

There’s documented marginalia and scribblings that suggest a serious reader, and anecdotes about her reciting poems at parties, reading Proust on set, and expounding on Whitman, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

I listened to the radio anecdotes about Marilyn and watched the activity across the street and down the block, where someone had opened a hydrant and children squealed in and out of the rushing water.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago