tale
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The inspiring tale of a forgotten hero: In 1990, a single dad got fed up with the billboards for cigarettes targeting Chicago’s Black neighborhoods.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
Along the breezy streets, you’ll find a tale of two eras: the town’s surf bum past and its glitzy present.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Brimming with confidence, he said: "I look like I am from a fairy tale, I am the most handsome man in England."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
This is a cautionary tale — and a teachable moment — for anyone who has a blended family, with children from previous marriages.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
But she tried anyway: ‘“And here begins the tale of mistletoe, that most unassuming and gentlest of plants.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Miyazaki’s tales also tend to immerse us in supernatural domains existing parallel to our own, as if reality masks more ethereal, life-affirming realms.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Unlike in most mythological tales, the white Corinthian columns have been swapped out for brutal stone architecture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
A new marketing campaign beginning this month will prompt consumers to share their harrowing tales of trying the extremely bitter Malört for the first time—and to taste it if they haven’t before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The overall bluntness of much of my life, the enforced reality of it, kept me from completely believing in things like psychic abilities, especially those from animals or other possible fairy tales.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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