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narrator

[nar-ey-ter, na-rey‑, nar-uh‑] / ˈnær eɪ tər, næˈreɪ‑, ˈnær ə‑ /


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In his short story “Intimacy,” Raymond Carver uses the metaphor of “dead leaves” to describe the unresolved wounds between the narrator and his ex-wife.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

“The bond between us was never conventional,” narrator Aaron tells us.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Now, Matarazzo is set to play Mark, Rent's narrator and a documentary filmmaker.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Meg finds a friend in the book’s second narrator, the 24-year-old “churchy and chinless” Birdina “Birdie” Calhoun, a reluctant visitor to Oxford.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Tolstoy, of course, as an omniscient narrator, also provides a running commentary, establishing what it was that the combatants were all, willy-nilly, conspiring to bring about.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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