narrative
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Eliot Prize-winning collection of narrative poetry “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”; her haunting accordion-fold elegy, “Nox”; and her widely praised translation of Sappho’s surviving fragments, “If Not, Winter.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Assistant coroner Briony Ballard listened to evidence at London Inner South Coroner's Court before publishing a narrative conclusion on Mia's death.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Zuckerberg largely exists outside of the narrative that follows Haugen and Horwitz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Coalition has mostly avoided cuts so far, although one of E-Day's narrative directors announced last month he had been let go.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Then they encountered European society and for the first time their history acquired a narrative flow.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Barrot said French diplomatic missions were trying to put across the French case "so that we have our own narratives to disseminate, rather than being subjected to those of others."
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Woven into the narratives are interludes—some are standalone chapters, others are lengthy parenthetical additions—that flash forward to reveal the anticlimaxes of the characters’ latter years and, as Ms. Li views it, their irrelevance to posterity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The embassy said Iran "reserves the right to take appropriate legal measures, as necessary, to safeguard the rights and interests of the country and its people in response to misleading and damaging media narratives".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
For those who are tired of such narratives, the appeal of the show will be in its interpretive stagecraft, which is impressive and clever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The problem, it is claimed, with grand narratives is that they privilege one perspective over another; the alternative is a relativism which holds that all perspectives are equally valid.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing narrative
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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