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  • Jodi Kantor's new book on the burdens placed on President Barack Obama and his marriage during his first years in office is replete with colorful anec...

    Epic Rahm Emanuel Tirade Detailed In New Book The Huffington Post News Team 2012

  • Mebbee Ai shud tell a apokrifful anec…antido…amico…story bowt maiseff at tihs junkchur, waddya sai…!

    Evil Latte - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • If anything, the best thing sometimes that you can get out of a bad date is the "anec-date" part of it.

    CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2006 2006

  • The sound of high heels tapping toward his office anec?

    Too Many Bosses Freed, Jan 1995

  • Whatever its literal truth, this anec - dote suggests that the artist's imagination remains ba - sically iconic, and hence ready to find images where none were intended, even under the discipline of an abstract style.

    CHANCE IMAGES H. W. JANSON 1968

  • The Historia is a prose morality largely compiled from sixteenth-century books of travel description, magic, demonology, theological discussion, religious - moral edification, proverb lore, and humorous anec - dote.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968

  • The picture of Diogenes as a type, conveyed by the anec -

    CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

  • This anec dote of failure and that of success kept cropping out.

    The Brick Moon, and Other Stories 1899

  • I love that the editors continue to reward us with little Coach anec-douches every once in a while from random people, because they do not have enough time in an hour to actually show the sundry ways in which Coach has wowed them with his ego.

    TVgasm Recaps 2009

  • Submitting another's McBride's hypothesis was based on limited anec - essay as one's own work may well amount to dotal observations, but he was subsequently shown fraud, and if it seems to have been accepted, one to be right and thalidomide was removed from the barrier to committing further fraud has been market.

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