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as in stories
a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened
wrote a witty, chatty narrative of all the happenings at the party
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as in tales
a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel
in such narratives as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter," Edgar Allan Poe essentially created the modern detective story
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Recent Examples of narratives
The show weaves two parallel narratives with offbeat humor and an unexpected heartwarming realism.
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026
For example, anthropologist Brian Larkin documented how viewers in northern Nigeria rework the narratives of Bollywood films to align with local Islamic values.
—Gareth Barkin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Each run-up brought new believers, new narratives, and higher prices.
—Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
By extending the boycott and adding a major media company—CBS—to the list, the group is broadening its focus beyond retail to include corporate influence over public narratives and political accountability.
—Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
One of the central narratives of season ten, filmed last summer, is the ongoing flirtation between Wilson and Miller, despite Miller’s residual humiliation at the way he’d dismissed her in the press after their breakup.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2026
You guys create more damn narratives that are full of (bleep).
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
Several speakers pointed to narratives that portray trans people as threats, particularly in public spaces.
—J.m. Banks
march 31, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
As such, optimistic claims about the efficacy of EdTech often mirror industry marketing narratives.
—Dr. Timothy Scott, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2026
Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026
For example, anthropologist Brian Larkin documented how viewers in northern Nigeria rework the narratives of Bollywood films to align with local Islamic values.
—Gareth Barkin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Each run-up brought new believers, new narratives, and higher prices.
—Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
By extending the boycott and adding a major media company—CBS—to the list, the group is broadening its focus beyond retail to include corporate influence over public narratives and political accountability.
—Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
One of the central narratives of season ten, filmed last summer, is the ongoing flirtation between Wilson and Miller, despite Miller’s residual humiliation at the way he’d dismissed her in the press after their breakup.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2026
You guys create more damn narratives that are full of (bleep).
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
Several speakers pointed to narratives that portray trans people as threats, particularly in public spaces.
—J.m. Banks
march 31, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
As such, optimistic claims about the efficacy of EdTech often mirror industry marketing narratives.
—Dr. Timothy Scott, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for narratives
Noun
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Often, this is a useful guideline, and limits, in general, are very much the friend of the fiction writer, but there are certain stories that benefit from a sense of instability.—
Nina Mesfin,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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As is common in the policing profession, officers and supervisors sometimes share experiences and stories for a variety of reasons.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
4 Apr. 2026
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Wessels catches gleams to follow not only in magical tales but in twinkling memories, sparkling wordplay, the films of silver-screen star Veronica Lake, and his charm of a daughter, the inspiration of a half-dozen poems that take their titles from spells.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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Other folk tales trace them back to Noah's ark.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
23 Dec. 2025
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Stern has also published four collections of stories, four novellas, and two children’s books, all of them steeped in Jewish folklore.—
Cathleen Schine,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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For reading widely, there’s discovery to be had among novellas, which thanks to their short length can get away with being weird and different.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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The group will highlight stories and histories from the United States and Central and South America as told through musical repertoire and historic instruments.—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2026
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Though local histories differ, fossil capitalism and the imperialism that sustains it have produced a regional trauma carried across borders in memory, bodies and ecosystems.—
Mehrnoush Soroush,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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While 5 million Australian accounts had been deactivated, a substantial number of Australian children continued to retain accounts, create new accounts and pass platforms’ age assurance systems, the report said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Declining stock values during tax season, when more Americans than usual are checking retirement accounts, have compounded the sense of economic unease.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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The records pulled back a curtain on favor-trading and frank communications in a chummy elite that looked past Epstein's 2008 guilty plea to solicitating prostitution from an underage girl in Florida.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The forthcoming scorecards are just one way the group plans to track the public-lands voting records of Wyoming lawmakers.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
3 Apr. 2026
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At least that’s according to interviews here with several Illini and Huskies players, who universally concurred that the media versions of Underwood and Hurley are not really an accurate portrayal of their personalities.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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The Bavarian Bakery Museum has old copper and brass molds in their collection, whereas the Alsatian versions were often made of ceramic.—
Deena Prichep,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Narratives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narratives. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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