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adj. - Characterized by or given to telling usually short narratives of an interesting, amusing, or curious incident often biographical and generally characterized by human interest

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  • But besides this anecdotic aspect, the reelection of Uribe is bad news for Chavez.
  • The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf.
  • The old appear in conversation in two characters: the critically silent and the garrulous anecdotic.
  • On the anecdotic part, no mean was too small not to be used to discredit the independent universities proposal.
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