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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anecdote /ˈanɪkdəʊt/
▶noun a short entertaining story about a real incident or person.
■ an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay.
– derivatives
anecdotal adjective,
anecdotalist noun,
anecdotally adverb.
anecdotal adjective,
anecdotalist noun,
anecdotally adverb.
– origin C17: from Fr., or via mod. L. from Gk anekdota ‘things unpublished’.
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