narrative
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That narrative - mostly told through lavish video interludes - is about reckoning and reconciliation.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The problem was that the 37-year-old assemblywoman couldn’t quite manage to assemble a compelling narrative from all those memorable, resonant elements.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
And if that doesn’t ensure the populace is in thrall to the authoritarian narrative, the firemen of the novel burn books, ensuring ideas can’t get into the hands of the people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
On TikTok, young people dubbed personality hires are pushing back against the narrative that they are employed despite lacking skills.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
All I can guess is that for Morgenstern, the real narrative was not Buttercup and the remarkable things she endures, but, rather, the history of the monarchy and other such stuff.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
The “Phantasm” films gained popularity with their dreamlike feel and mind-boggling narratives of “real” and “dream” worlds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Most of Wall Street’s midcap narratives boil down to nothing more than asserting that such stocks are neither too big nor too little but “just right.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
In a letter posted online, he said quitting was "the only way" to end a "difficult period", but insisted the decision should not be "mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that have surrounded me".
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Speaking of his decision to step down he added it should not "be mistaken for an acceptance of the narratives that have surrounded me".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Such narratives do not play down the epistemological problem of moving from the specific to the universal; they accentuate it.
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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