(n.) A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.
Example Sentences:
(1) (4) Electrical stimulation by cutaneous devices or implants can give much benefit to some patients in whom other methods have failed and there are indications, not only from anecdote and clinical impression but also now from experimental physiology, that it may benefit by mechanisms of interaction at the first sensory synapse.
(2) Armed with this knowledge, the practitioner treating a breakdown injury can work to a solution based on scientific understanding rather than anecdotal information.
(3) So it’s not that we haven’t seen the progress we’d hoped for – in some places it really is that there are no services to be had.” Official as well as anecdotal feedback illustrates how serious the situation is, he says.
(4) Historically, this has been an area of conflicting and often anecdotal reports, and there are still significant gaps in our knowledge of the effects of temperature on tumor-host interactions.
(5) Three of the anecdotes around which David Cameron built his case in the debate became the subject of questioning and raised eyebrows, as reporters, bloggers and Twitter users launched their own factchecking operations.
(6) The current psychiatric literature is anecdotal and mostly restricted to discussion of psychiatric issues related to the BMT hospitalization itself.
(7) It added: "While the voluntary code for remuneration consultants specifies that they should not cross-sell services, anecdotal evidence and interviewees the High Pay Commission met during this research suggest this practice is widespread."
(8) Whereas a film documentary might piece together the sweatshop story through footage and anecdote, the game allows players to experience the system from the inside with all its cat's cradle of pressures and temptations.
(9) IIRR has also used humorous anecdotes and parables as educational devices.
(10) We are not going to change the system based on one man's anecdotes."
(11) New therapeutic approaches to immune thrombocytopenia during pregnancy appear to be possible and can be applied when there is a risk to the fetus, they are still either experimental or anecdotal and there is a real need for a well-designed clinical trial.
(12) The point of my anecdote is not to compare success bred by 2 very different education systems, but to say that in my experience children develop at different rates, and that any tests done on my son aged 5 would have had no prefictive value whatsoever.
(13) Although the existing outcome data are insufficient, there is a large array of possible treatment options and facilities; the clinician should attempt to match the patient with the program based on relevant clinical and anecdotal information.
(14) I get the feeling something's missing from this anecdote.
(15) Cable said: "There has been anecdotal evidence of abuse by certain employers, including in the public sector, of some vulnerable workers at the margins of the labour market."
(16) Few figures exist but anecdotally, online fundraising is being embraced by the majority for whom at least a "donate" button exists, says Cath Lee, chief executive of the Small Charities Coalition .
(17) There's no obvious way to lead into this anecdote, so I'll just come out with it: a nurse on one of the postnatal wards in our local hospital told my wife that her (my wife's) nipples might be "too flat" to breastfeed.
(18) Although, as yet, there is no specific treatment of epidermolysis bullosa (EB) simplex, anecdotal reports suggest the possible efficacy of one of the newer topical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents, bufexamac.
(19) The rationale for recommendation of bed rest is largely anecdotal and is supported by almost all experienced angiographers responding to our questionnaire.
(20) On the return journey, the tired passengers exchange smuggling anecdotes and safety tips.
Narrative
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
(a.) Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous.
(n.) That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.
Example Sentences:
(1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(2) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
(3) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(4) Although the collection was one of Winehouse's major projects over the past year, it was also part of her narrative of relapse and decline.
(5) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
(6) The Russian channel has the specific mission to counter the narrative of the so-called “mainstream media” and often does not even attempt balanced coverage of global events.
(7) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
(8) The review received more than 2,200 documents, the report said, to generate a “narrative” of events.
(9) Narratives of illness in medical records and case presentations in teaching hospitals say surprisingly little about an important matter: what patients understand and feel.
(10) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
(11) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(12) Because her achievements chime with bigger narratives.
(13) Events had to be shoehorned into a wider narrative.
(14) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
(15) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
(16) All subjects expressed at least some story content, but only the right hemidecorticate narratives conveyed suggestion and implication as well as explicit statement.
(17) The old narrative is that of segregation, leading to confined form of space and time.
(18) This study examines the use of the co-temporal connectives when, while and as in the elicited narratives of 71 children between 4;10 and 11;11.
(19) He suggested it formed part of a political narrative, justifying Bo's removal because he and his associates were "bad" people.
(20) In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan.