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fable

[fey-buhl] / ˈfeɪ bəl /


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Each fable was printed as a separate folio; the folios are stored in a box designed by the multimedia artist Kiki Smith.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

But it was 1986’s “A Smoky Mountain Christmas,” Parton’s down-home festive fable, that cemented her as a seasonal favorite.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

At some point in childhood, through one classic fable or another, most of us absorb the lesson that looks can be deceiving.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

France President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to "a great artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a universal fable".

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

There’s no question that this Texas-of-the- mind fable is often synthetic, sometimes untruthful, and frequently romantic, but that in no way diminishes its strength as a symbol.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The historian’s duty, Mr. Sebag Montefiore writes, is to the facts, “but the fables and myths are important parts of the history too.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

That Niall finds Ruben so alluring is natural to Gadd, who believes the notion of a valiant male figure has been bred into everyone via fables and fairy tales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Interlaced with the prosaic reflections are a series of fables involving inhabitants from the present and past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

"The great thing about these movies is that they are like fables," Byron Howard, one of the two directors, told AFP in Los Angeles.

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

Jefferson denounced Washington's speech as “shreds of stuff from Aesop’s fables and Tom Thumb. ”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Ned Ludd was the fabled hero of the early-19th-century Luddites, who smashed stocking frames—knitting machines for socks—and burned factories to protest job-destroying technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

They’re the fabled duo who first wrapped the arches of this same bridge in straw-colored fabric in 1985.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026

Shaun Edwards' departure from France's national team is being negotiated, with the fabled defence coach set to be without a role a year out from the Rugby World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Soaring ticket prices and extra security for US President Donald Trump do not alter the electric energy of fabled Madison Square Garden as it hosts games three and four of the NBA Finals.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

And what if they discovered him—the fabled monster they loved to hate?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

If I marry Again sounds like one of those pulpy domestic morals with which the jaded directors are so fond of fabling.

From Time Magazine Archive

With thy fabling and thy reasoning, i-wis,      I am beguiled; but I have known thee ere this:      Art not Celestine, that dwelleth by the river side?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt

Ah! why do fabling poets tell That thy fleet wings outstrip the wind?

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

From a very child I loved all fancies marvellous and wild; I turned from truth, to listen to the lore Of many an old and fabling troubadour.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by George Gilfillan

And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams,   But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams   Was woven in the sky.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells




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