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  • adverb In an anecdotal manner; by means of a recounted incident.

Etymologies

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anecdotal +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And I think what I'm told again anecdotally by women themselves and people who are advocates for patients is that they are still pretty much following the prior advice, that they're still getting mammograms under 50.

    Sorting Through Mammogram Confusion 2010

  • And, again anecdotally, my own sense is that the academics on the right tend to be about as qualified, but not * strikingly* better than, the median.

    Conservatives for Affirmative Action 2005

  • And then within your larger customers, what have you heard, just kind of anecdotally, from those guys in terms of their approach to marketing spending in 2010 relative to 2008?

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • And then within your larger customers, what have you heard, just kind of anecdotally, from those guys in terms of their approach to marketing spending in 2010 relative to 2008?

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • As I kind of anecdotally referenced with NRF in New York, the former Symbol business or the EMB business is improving sequentially.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • I used the word "anecdotally" because I could only test for the area I live in.

    All About Symbian - News 2010

  • And then within your larger customers, what have you heard, just kind of anecdotally, from those guys in terms of their approach to marketing spending in 2010 relative to 2008?

    Media Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • As I kind of anecdotally referenced with NRF in New York, the former Symbol business or the EMB business is improving sequentially.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • On the spectrum policy panel, Jon M. Peha, a Carnegie Mellon engineer serving as the FCC's chief technologist, argued that change begins at home: The federal government is the nation's largest spectrum owner and "anecdotally" doing a poor job of managing it equivalently.

    Ars Technica 2009

  • It is too soon to tell how local homeless population figures for 2009 will compare to 2007 numbers, Wheeler said, but "anecdotally" there appears to be an increase.

    Bakersfield.com Latest news 2009

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