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A short account of an incident, often interesting or amusing.

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anecdote

She opened the speech with an anecdote about her first job.
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For a class publication, Ravi wrote an anecdote about the afternoon he accidentally brought two different shoes to a costume rehearsal.
From Shaping a Collection of Stories.
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