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a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened
a narration that vastly overstates her minor role in this international affair
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Recent Examples of narrations
Among the popular narrations are those read by Ian McKellen, Claire Danes, Dan Stevens, Stephen Fry, Anthony Heald and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
24 June 2026
The Cleveland native moved to New York in 1981 and worked as a freelance national voice-over artist until his retirement in 2021, heard on thousands of commercials, promos and narrations over those four decades.
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Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2026
The action is largely desynchronized, the activities onscreen contrasting with the voice-over narrations, with the effect of destabilizing the present tense of the movie, imbuing it with nostalgia and with longing for possible futures.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
Each episode still opens with character narrations that double as musings on existence, and some dive fully into that ache.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
One accessibility feature that no live TV service offers is audio descriptions or audible narrations of on-screen actions that would not be otherwise discernible from dialog alone.
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PC Magazine,
5 Sep. 2024
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
24 June 2026
The Cleveland native moved to New York in 1981 and worked as a freelance national voice-over artist until his retirement in 2021, heard on thousands of commercials, promos and narrations over those four decades.
—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2026
The action is largely desynchronized, the activities onscreen contrasting with the voice-over narrations, with the effect of destabilizing the present tense of the movie, imbuing it with nostalgia and with longing for possible futures.
—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
Each episode still opens with character narrations that double as musings on existence, and some dive fully into that ache.
—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
One accessibility feature that no live TV service offers is audio descriptions or audible narrations of on-screen actions that would not be otherwise discernible from dialog alone.
—
PC Magazine,
5 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for narrations
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Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.
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The history of Kaskaskia is full of stories of resilience and stubborn pride, but also of the inevitability of nature.
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Plaintiff attorneys have built similar tools capable of producing polished demand letters, medical chronologies, and settlement ranges using massive legal datasets.
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The Southern Sinagua people, hardy folk who lived in the area from about 1150 to around 1400, drew them to mark major happenings in their world, keep chronologies of celestial events or map out favorite Verde River hotspots.
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Across the exhibition, photographs become places where personal histories intersect with broader cultural narratives, revealing how memory continues to evolve long after an image is made.
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Lee’s portrait, searching and moving, first sparked my enthusiasm about biographies as histories of eras and of minds.
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Don't forget to check the social media accounts of your local favorite eating spots for more deals.
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The center says identity crimes have shifted from isolated events into more layered cases that can spread across multiple accounts and institutions.
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Those films have frequently been described by reviewers and political commentators as advancing narratives aligned with Hindu nationalist politics, although their makers have defended them as fact-based or historically grounded.
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Uranus in Gemini is transforming the structure of our conversations, narratives and mindsets, making previous methods of communication feel increasingly inadequate.
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But the records do not identify Swift or Kelce or indicate whether the event is directly connected to the couple.
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Between daily high temperatures and warm overnight lows — which won't be low enough to offer much relief — more than 300 records are expected to be set by Saturday.
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Beyond resumes, DashResume includes unlimited cover letter creation, resume scoring tools, PDF exports, and the ability to create multiple versions of your resume for different industries or positions.
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Different software versions, and even different storage media, can preserve different file fragments and automatic backups.
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Over the years, through the Sports Huddle and other venues, Andelman participated in some 13,000 radio broadcasts and over 1,200 television commentaries on channels 5 and 7 as well.
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Pastors normally take hours a week to examine the original language for their text, consult commentaries, develop illustrations and examples, and deliberate about practical applications.
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“Narrations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narrations. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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