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narrative

Definition for narrative

adjective as in storylike, chronological

noun as in story, tale

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People outside Sudan often hear competing narratives about the war’s origins.

For admirers of Golden Age Netherlandish painting, there was the small, perfect exhibition “Vermeer’s Love Letters” at New York’s Frick Collection, which united three celebrated paintings, with similar suggested narratives.

Her LP is a narrative of troubled love and shattered small-town lives in which sparkly country songs sit alongside drones that conjure the hum of electrical lines snaking down a highway.

Yet the role of interest rates in the debt-fueled AI spending race also has become a big part of the narrative.

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The loaded narrative robs the picture of more time with Gary and Pawbert, even if Bush finds plot-effective ways to feature the supporting mammals.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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