anecdote
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1. anecdote - Noun
2. anecdote - Verb
Meaning
Unpublished narratives.
A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.
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According to one anecdote (from Al Capp Remembered, 1994), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home—leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.
A famous anecdote relates how the young Sima Guang once saved a playmate who had fallen into an enormous vat full of water.
Along the way, as the Pennsylvania court anecdote suggests, the Trump campaign would need to show evidence to back up his claim, and so far there's no evidence of fraud in the ongoing ballot counts, which often run beyond election night.
An old anecdote recounts that when Strauss's wife Adele asked Brahms to autograph her fan, he wrote the first few notes of the "Blue Danube" waltz, and then wrote the words "Unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms!" underneath.
An anecdote has it that when Philip II sent a message to Sparta saying "If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta", the Spartans responded with the single, terse reply: αἴκα main, "if".
Allahpundit noted it nine years agoanother Dodd-Kennedy sexual harassment anecdote involving Carrie Fisher, also from 1985.