storyline
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“Eleanor Rigby” attracted a post-55 audience in droves, while the good-natured storyline and nautical sound effects inherent in “Yellow Submarine” drew children and pre-teens into The Beatles’ camp.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
The video’s storyline, in which the 33-year-old pop singer gets “Carrie”-style revenge for men’s misogynist judgments, was completely overshadowed by fan alarm at Grande’s apparent emaciation.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Mel’s storyline was shaped by a writers’ room that included women familiar with menopause.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The song details the initial encounter that launches the romance that is the record’s primary storyline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
I asked him if he could talk to his boss about killing the Burned Beauty’s Beau storyline.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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We want the drama and the storylines of much of the campaign just gone, but we could do without the poisonous way it all finished in the final week or two.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The cannibalistic Laestrygonians become towering armored warriors, while other episodes are combined or radically re-imagined, with characters and storylines invented from whole cloth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Her curatorial approach to repertoire isn’t eclecticism, but rather a search for storylines and sounds that stretch across time and styles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
We can expect to see all those storylines when Prince Harry and possibly his wife Meghan and their children Archie, aged seven, and Lilibet, aged five, return to the UK this week.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Almost always, our storylines lead to a climactic battle fought with plastic lightsabers from the dollar store.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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