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tale

[teyl] / teɪl /




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Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, the tale of silent film star Norma Desmond’s descent into murderous derangement as her Hollywood comeback stays out of frame, is the other.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

Beyond the juicy and sordid details, there’s the redemption tale of Hoyt Richards, a Princeton grad who became the first male supermodel in the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

How it happened is a tale of speculation, the oil panic and the rotating winners from artificial intelligence, with a walk-on part for the weird way indexes work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Satrapi, saying she was "a great artist who turned her Iranian childhood into a universal tale".

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Because Decker had taken the best stock stories—the International Gang, the Rich American, Dr. No himself—and he’d pulled them together into a single, spellbinding tale.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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