tale
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It’s a tale as old as Dickens: No one likes a Scrooge.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
‘The Odyssey’ meets ‘Shark Week’ in Amazon Prime Video’s ‘The Devil’s Mouth’: the ultimate travel horror tale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The tender tale of a couple who tell their story through the various bits of paper they accumulate became even more emotional following the death of Oliver in 2023.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
"What if I have completely overestimated my capabilities? What if my story ends up being a cautionary tale like Icarus about flying too close to the sun?" he writes in the book.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Now it was her turn to feel bashful, and she tried to steer him back to his tale.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
He called on him to quit and injected further tales of alleged cruelty into the discussion.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
Until Euro 2016, Wales' story had been dominated by tales of heartache, Joe Jordan's handball in 1977 and the Romania defeat of 1993 among many painful chapters.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Tapping Travis Scott to play the Bard singing the tales of Odysseus’ exploits, for example, doesn’t merely reframe the role of ancient storytellers and poets as that age’s rappers.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Novels about country mice who move to the city are frequently grim tales of innocence lost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Many locals and visitors believed the eerie tales of lights flickering on and off during the night, dishes falling on their own, and phantoms in the bathroom mirror.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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