personal anecdote
Example Sentences
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The ceremony and benefit dinner featured special guest Oprah Winfrey, who used a personal anecdote to touch on the power of books to liberate “one page at a time.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023
Haley is reviving the personal anecdote she would give in South Carolina - almost verbatim.
From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2023
Haley is reviving the personal anecdote she would give in South Carolina — almost verbatim.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023
In many cases, for holistic medicine practices, "the personal anecdote seems just as powerful as citing a peer reviewed study," said Chelsea Platt, a sociologist at Park University in Missouri who studies wellness culture.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2020
He was a minister much in request for church soirees, where he amused the congregations so greatly with personal anecdote about himself that they never thought much of him afterwards.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
