(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.
Tidbit
Definition:
(n.) A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike Indian officials, who have slipped anonymous tidbits and soundbites to the news agencies, RIM has remained tight-lipped about its negotiations.
(2) Cliches are often useful tidbits of wisdom imparted too often to have any remaining emotional impact: “live every day as though it is your last” being a prime example.
(3) But plenty of quirky facts and peculiar tidbits turned up as well.
(4) 4.32pm GMT Here’s a spicy tidbit: The CIA general counsel who filed the crimes report targeting Senate staff is himself a target of sorts of the Senate report on CIA torture.
(5) That's a new freedom – the idea that a story can have long segments and short segments and that you don't have to end each 42-minute segment with a tidbit of the next one because you know that people are going to be watching several in the row.
(6) It is not, fair to say, as it is billed: the reporter – Amy Chozick, on the paper's media business beat – calls up on the off-chance of a revealing interview and, failing that, settles for tidbits from Wendi's chatty friends: "Through a family spokesman, Mrs Murdoch declined to be interviewed for this article, as did other members of the Murdoch family.
(7) But it will provide buyers with tidbits from the film ahead of its release in December, and then reveal more features and personality after the film’s release.
(8) Benjy Sarlin has rounded up 10 tidbits the former governor has to choose from, including "Show us your plan!
(9) Here are some of the tidbits gleaned from our comprehensive look at the cables: • Between 2007 and 2009, annual cables were distributed to "encourage the use of agricultural biotechnology", directing US embassies to "pursue an active biotech agenda".
(10) This is why they fall upon any tidbit of information that might hint at "installed base" eagerly.
(11) 2.30pm: "Here's a tidbit for you," points out Neil Bennun.
(12) Frequently displaced, especially if distortion of the hollow point has occurred, this tidbit of trace evidence is worth recovering and analyzing.
(13) Though the peddlers of memoirs and mid-market newspapers have scavenged every last tidbit from this affair, sensible historians admit knowing little about it.
(14) Read the full report here , including this tidbit: Iran has yet to declare its hand about who should lead Iraq.
(15) This thunderous tidbit was actually the last gasp of an epic Warner Bros panel that featured plenty of surprises on Saturday morning.
(16) The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking.
(17) But the splashy nature of that intrusion – a person or people using the online handle Guccifer 2.0 distributed tidbits from the breach to reporters – revealed a second intruder, codenamed Cozy Bear by ThreatConnect.
(18) 9.53pm BST The Atlantic's Jordan Weissmann picks out what he thinks is "the saddest paragraph" in all today's coverage of the government shutdown: But so far, nothing I've read about the government shutdown has been nearly as gut-wrenching as this tidbit from The Wall Street Journal (paywall): "At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed.
(19) 9.03pm BST Cardinals 0 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 4th Behind the scenes tidbit: I've spent the last inning trying to find any workable photos to show some in-game action and then I realized that there hasn't been any in-game action.
(20) Their fourth release, Random Access Memories , is the most hysterically anticipated record in years: every tidbit disseminated online over the past two months has been scrutinised like a fragment of the true cross.