How To Use Anecdotal In A Sentence
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Systematic research can extend and refine traditional and anecdotal knowledge.
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We hear about this regularly on an anecdotal basis with a number of managing agents.
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Anecdotal evidence has long pointed to crofters being a hale and hearty breed - albeit prone to bad backs and the odd grumble.
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Similarly, the facetting pattern masks inclusions sufficiently that, anecdotally, lay-persons are unable to see certain inclusions (even down to SI2 or EVEN P1) even with a 10x loupe.
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Fictional situations are related anecdotally to life experiences.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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Much of the information and government decisions concerning goldenseal are based on anecdotal rather than quantitative information on population status.
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From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus.
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Such preoccupations rarely seem to have troubled the solitary beings who inhabit the clamorous pages of her witty, erudite and anecdotal - if inconclusive - study.
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Nursing literature is full of anecdotal accounts of the distant approach that doctors have towards patients and their carers.
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Griffen is different perhaps an anecdotal proof of nurturing over naturing, but he is only interested in running the gambling empire his mentor turned over to him.
Dragon’s Luck-Robert Asprin « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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The feelings that the listeners recorded at the time are in line with anecdotal evidence of experiences in places that have infrasound.
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The anecdotal evidence, reported in professional journals as well as the popular media, is compelling: Music heals.
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Well, anecdotal experiences from my own life have shown me that some people are in fact "tastier" to mosquitos than others.
How the mosquitos of Smyrna were fond of tender dilettante skin back in 1764
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Many of these enquiries were based on anecdotal evidence and coloured by popular prejudices.
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And the impression of overinvestment gleaned from economic statistics finds support in anecdotal evidence of corporate behaviour.
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People also talk about other things such as ginkgo possibly having some anecdotal benefits as well with Alzheimer's, but there is a that we don't know about this disease.
CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2002
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The results include anecdotal but compelling evidence that officers are already becoming less inclined to take the risks needed to prevail in battle.
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The value of traditional knowledge and anecdotal information should be recognized by the co-management group.
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In contrast to this scholarly account, the evocatively-entitled Tin Horns and Calico is a lively account, based on anecdotal information and data from private sources.
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There is ample anecdotal evidence this is happening.
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But anecdotal and scattershot as it may be, it's also one of the most acerbically amusing books ever written on bars and gives one a real appreciation of saloon talk.
The All-American Place
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The accumulation of these kinds of anecdotal stories of corruption convinced him to set a trap to ensnarl slum landlords and city inspectors in a carefully documented web of official misconduct.
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It is more than a commonplace book - a wonderful thing in itself, but anecdotal and made in the moment.
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It is necessarily too anecdotal and incomplete with respect to the immigrant experience for that.
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There's the anecdotal phenomenon of the woman who manages to break through the glass ceiling, but kicks the ladder away so no other women can usurp her position.
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Many anecdotal reports and theoretic and research articles have been published on the psychological effects of spontaneous abortion.
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Researchers say experiments with 19 wild elephant groups in the reserve confirm anecdotal reports that the animals show keen interest in the bones and tusks of other dead elephants.
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And you come back with some traveling anecdotalist?
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss
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One of his comments, though anecdotal, is interesting because it suggests that children and adults receive stories in very different ways.
Book Review: Coraline
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The results include anecdotal but compelling evidence that officers are already becoming less inclined to take the risks needed to prevail in battle.
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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
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There is growing anecdotal evidence that the cost of accommodation is putting off many potential students.
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Instead of relying on anecdotal accounts, psychologists could provide better information to assist the resolution of such a case.
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There is ample anecdotal evidence this is happening.
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The court paperwork also claimed, based on what it called anecdotal accounts, shoppers no longer wanted to come to the mall, and the clientele that had stayed had caused more crime.
Keyetv.com Local News
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Merchant's style is anecdotal, a frolicsome oral narration, aglitter with personal encounters with stars round the world.
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Anecdotally, mobile phone calls and texts have increased.
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There is anecdotal evidence that local advice is of mixed quality.
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Anecdotally, I have also been informed by neighbours that the internal walls in these houses are non-supporting.
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This phenomenon is difficult to measure because it was not systematically recorded, although it was frequently referred to in anecdotal evidence of the period. 3
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The painted scenes seemed anecdotal and unconnected.
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Anecdotal evidence from friends suggests that no matter how much delicious food we prepare with our kids, it's almost impossible to avoid advertising that equates falling leaves with crinkling Mars Bar wrappers.
Linda Novick O'Keefe: Octoberliscious
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anecdotal conversation
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I wish the exhibition had been arranged chronologically instead of by theme ( "Landscape Painting as a Science" or "The Rhythm of the Working Hand"): It would have been thrilling to follow the transition from gorgeous anecdotalist to roughhewn mystic.
Give a Painter His Due: Inness Deserves Top Honors
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There is no apparent conclusive scientific study, but the anecdotal evidence is strong that the herb is useful.
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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
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The methodologies employed are not only made explicit, but discussed in some detail, albeit at times anecdotally.
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Yes, a good portion of the exposition is anecdotal, but he embeds it in a convincing statistical, comparative framework.
Matthew Yglesias » It’s a Mystery!
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I have my own theories on this, but they are based purely on anecdotal evidence.
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As a world-class spoilsport and curmudgeon, I now have less and less anecdotal material to fall back on when I want to blast another society.
French Twist: Meet Monsieur Nice Guy
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The painter is a seriously anecdotal man, a raconteur par excellence who needs no aide-memoires, at age 77.
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Studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that the uninsured and the poor receive inferior care.
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I have tried to introduce personal anecdotal narrative into the book because I became very involved in my investigation into the naturopath.
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Dr. Scents, you are an impressively ignorant piece of absence, but I will indulge you just to demonstrate again what a fuckhead you are — you asked what I presume you intended to be a rhetorical question, and followed it with: Similarly (and, I admit, anecdotally), in the school I attended, very few went on to college.
Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers
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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
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Over the next 20 years his anecdotal paintings of peasant life, based on a close study of Dutch 17th-century genre painters, were universally admired.
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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
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This paper therefore is based mainly on my own thoughtful experience and informal anecdotal research.
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Or, to be blunt, how to get something named after you.… From anecdotal evidence gathered in From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow and elsewhere, this reviewer suggests the surest route to toponymic immortality is becoming the President of the United States of America.
The Chicago Blog: Review: Monmonier, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
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On an anecdotal level, some campesino neighbors of mine had put about 30,000 pesos in a bank account, but had major problems withdrawing it because of a problem with the account holder's fingerprints -- they would not scan, and therefore she could not access her money at this particular bank.
Trust of banks and money in Mexico
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My evidence is anecdotal, but I detect a growing weariness among the public with his lust for power.
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Schad's graphic work, often anecdotal and illustrational, is evocative of George Grosz but without the muscle.
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The alternatives to this approach fall into two distinct and equally unsatisfactory categories: 1. Anecdotal evidence, interpretation and prediction.
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The life and the sins of the artists become anecdotal and fade, until they become anonymous.
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More recently a series of anecdotal reports suggested that colonic neoplasia might be missed in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms or lesions.
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There is anecdotal evidence of a rise in City workers taking former employers to the tribunal.
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But anecdotal evidence from airlines and removalists suggests many of those who fled post-1994 are being lured back by the country's stability.
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Having regard to both personal experience and anecdotal evidence, I suspect that the answers to these two questions are YES and NO respectively.
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On the other hand, there is a rich anecdotal history of brands that have come out of nowhere and marched across the globe to world domination.
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Historical reports were anecdotal, based on collection of a limited number of individual birds and generating a simple list of food items found in gizzards.
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The evidence is anecdotal, Dr. Newcomer notes, but a goal of the pilot program is to reduce any overuse in metastatic cancer patients while still paying doctors to care for patients.
In Treating Cancer, Insurer Tries New Way to Pay Docs
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She previews this approach to war in her short, anecdotal work Paris France, written just before Mrs. Reynolds and Wars I Have Seen.
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Yes, it's purely anecdotal, but I couldn't help but notice how many rich people at the upscale event were clamoring for, dare I say it, a free pass in other words, a handout.
Daniel Cubias: Notes From a Party for Rich People
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What he writes about York corresponds uncannily with my memory of what actually happened and includes anecdotal material which I have not seen written down anywhere else.
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The only real cryptobiont of the Balkans, the olm, has not yet been recorded by specialists in the western parts of Montenegro despite considerable anecdotal evidence of its presence.
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The evidence is necessarily anecdotal, but it is very compelling.
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However, it acknowledged that evidence on irresponsible airside alcohol sales remained largely anecdotal.
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Wisely, Shakeshaft does not base her conclusions on evidence that comes so close to anecdotal accounts.
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While this is but mere anecdotal evidence of what remains achievable in modern rugby union, Leicester certainly look and play like a team reborn.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's also far too steeped in anecdotal evidence and what people want it to reveal.
Archive 2004-06-01
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The film combines anecdotal minimalism with extremely careful attention to the image and the actors - with a single exception, all non-professional.
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The pictures of precision attacks provide only anecdotal evidence of effectiveness.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that the first 4-6 weeks of nursing/pumping is the toughest – after that, it usually gets a lot easier for the majority of moms.
Insecurities of a sleepless crazy lady. « A Bird’s Nest
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However, there is abundant anecdotal evidence of the effects of chemical pollution on the populations of small cetaceans inhabiting industrialised areas.
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If you are a hard core anecdotalist nothing exists in any meaningful way beyond the situatedness of the phenomenon anyway.
Maxwell's Hammer
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The painted scenes seemed anecdotal and unconnected.
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The alternatives have very seldom been tested in any scientific way, and their promises of miracle cures are usually anecdotal.
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The figures also confirmed anecdotal evidence that March was a bleak month for the high street and stores as shoppers stayed at home.
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I used the word "anecdotally" because I could only test for the area I live in.
All About Symbian - News
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Born to Buy would have benefited from more narrative, anecdotal sugar in the form of compelling characters to make the medicine go down.
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There is anecdotal evidence that it may well have discouraged some victims from reporting.
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The Gabrielle facetting pattern allows more light return to the eyes face-up, and anecdotally, it makes the Gabrielle look up to 2 grades whiter than the certificate states.
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In the absence of any hard evidence, the information remained anecdotal.
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There's a bit of anecdotal evidence that TSA explosive detectors will indeed false-positive on people who have handled glyceryl trinitrate pills.
Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems
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There is no apparent conclusive scientific study, but the anecdotal evidence is strong that the herb is useful.
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To date, the social science literature on New Age phenomena has been dominated by case studies and anecdotal accounts.
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My own anecdotal evidence suggests that right across the secondary school system our children are being short-changed of the patrimony of their story, which is to say the lineaments of the whole story, for there can be no true history that refuses to span the arc, no coherence without chronology.
The Guardian World News
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It is their freedom from the traditional literary, anecdotal, or moralistic associations of painting that has caused him to be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern art.
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Although we hear in the community some anecdotal reports of gay bashing, it's not something that's on the front pages of the papers.
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Kane's stand-up (as usual, with a cheeky but thought-provoking take on the social anthropology of his native Essex) is always a reliable source of entertainment, while Conaty's leftfield character comedy and lovable anecdotal material shows why the judges are tipping her to go far.
This week's new comedy
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The tradition of weather watching or amateur forecasting in Ireland has been passed on from generation to generation and has brought with it a wealth of lore and anecdotal observations.
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such information is only available anecdotally
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But there were many other sides to him, such as his sense of the ridiculous and his genius as an anecdotalist.
My hero: Victoria Glendinning on John Gross
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Anecdotally we found no supporting evidence in the literature, some pain theorists view swearing as a sign of ‘pain-related catastrophising’, which may be defined as a maladaptive response in which negative and unhelpful thoughts and ideas are brought to bear when pain is experienced.
Oh $#*%! Cursing can reduce pain perception
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anecdotally, patients have been reported to experience less pain
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The tour is a fascinating mix of anecdotal and historical stories combined with well-presented factual information.
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It is more than a commonplace book - a wonderful thing in itself, but anecdotal and made in the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ancestors and parents inhabit Paul's anecdotal poems, which also pay close attention to local creatures, mythic and otherwise.
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an anecdotal history of jazz
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But what they end up with, after all the reserve they impose (and which curtails their creative impetus) is merely anecdotal.
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Jim's book, at once encyclopedic and anecdotal, belongs beside the taboret of every narrative painter.
Why I Wrote Imaginative Realism
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Initial anecdotal reports from the study are promising.
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Anecdotally: At least one of the non-profits I volunteer with has directly benefitted from the stimulus.
Matthew Yglesias » Leonhardt on Stimuluss
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His evidence is purely anecdotal.
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But anecdotal evidence suggests that we're more obsessed with things actually being clean, as opposed to merely looking tidy.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the anecdotal evidence about the others - the clock-watchers - is piling up.
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Anecdotal reports suggest that there have been many introductions of new strains of bees to boost the gene bank of the New Zealand apiary industry - even though this was illegal.
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There is anecdotal evidence that it may well have discouraged some victims from reporting.
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One the most accomplished anecdotalists was Henry McKenzie, author of The Man of Feeling, who counted among his friends Robert Burns, a past master of cutting wit.
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However, there is abundant anecdotal evidence of the effects of chemical pollution on the populations of small cetaceans inhabiting industrialised areas.
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He's not an historian, he's not an archivist, he's not an anecdotalist.
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Well, tone, for one thing: a talented anecdotalist puts on a performance in order to give his tale poignancy and point.
Author! Author! » 2008 » February
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There's fairly convincing anecdotal evidence that some personal electronic devices have interfered with systems.
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Some effect measurements are based on anecdotal evidence.
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Anecdotal evidence also suggests that CAPTCHAs are getting harder, with some effectively indecipherable.
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The level of cynicism which is brought to many anecdotal accounts used in journalism could equally be levelled at official documentation.
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As one interviewer noted: ‘He's not a barrel of chuckles to talk to - not a anecdotalist like Ben Affleck.’
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Early accounts were mainly anecdotal, reported by clinicians and interpreted mainly as psychodynamic processes occurring during early development.
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They and their contributions are only mentioned anecdotally, if at all, in the centennial, sesquicentennial, and bicentennial celebrations of the villages and towns along the Southern Tier.
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Barnes's journalistic reputation is founded on his relaxed, anecdotal style, which is never entirely devoid of swank, clatter and show-off puns.
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His godson, BBC broadcaster Jamie Owen, also paid a fluent and amusing anecdotal tribute to ‘the best godfather you could have’, a man equally at home walking with presidents, prime ministers or paupers.
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Not sure how your failure to find more information than wikipedia or the supposed anecdotal evidence of a proven lair is interesting exactly.
Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
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There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to sustain concern that we live in a post-fact age.
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There is ample anecdotal evidence this is happening.
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The workshops did not bypass the inherent difficulties posed by the environment but presented anecdotal and experiential accounts related in the first person.
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Anecdotally (we found no supporting evidence in the literature), some pain theorists view swearing as a sign of ‘pain-related catastrophising’, which may be defined as a maladaptive response in which negative and unhelpful thoughts and ideas are brought to bear when pain is experienced.
Oh $#*%! Cursing can reduce pain perception
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The alternatives to this approach fall into two distinct and equally unsatisfactory categories: 1. Anecdotal evidence, interpretation and prediction.
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Supporting this is anecdotal evidence that this is a responsible decision while glossing over the very real possibility of harm and danger to the student.
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In Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens provides anecdotal literary evidence of young Victorian Britons seeking their fortune in America before returning home to settle prosperously in the shires, but there is hard documentation that large numbers of the early 20th-century immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were transient industrial workers with little intention to settle permanently in the U.S.
Home, Temporary, Home
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Critics blithely ignorant of its subject matter routinely dismiss western art as purely anecdotal.
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Though precise figures are unavailable, anecdotal estimates rarely vary.
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Other exceptional sherpas are given their place in the sun too in a narrative that has no great pretensions to literary skill or scholarship, but is enthusiastic and often wonderfully anecdotal.
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Apparently, and I have only anecdotal evidence for this point, the Smurf riding the skateboard is the Smurf you want attached to you in romantic evening moments.
10 reasons why hobbit porn is not the turn-on it should be.
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Many of them are anecdotal and the poem, ‘Making Sambar’ could well have been featured as a ‘middle’ on the editorial page of a newspaper.
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Its story, about a boy and a minatory dog, is anecdotally slight, but the way in which the camera observes and negotiates the labyrinthine alleyways of central Tehran is visually telling.
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Anecdotally, some patients have also reported pain after routinely wedging bulky wallets into their trouser pockets.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that a convicted hoarder will almost always collect again.
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It is perhaps irresponsible to address a subject that currently has so many weighty associations and deal with it using only anecdotal evidence.
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The results include anecdotal but compelling evidence that officers are already becoming less inclined to take the risks needed to prevail in battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you want to think about this in anecdotal terms, consider former congressman Chris Shays (R-CT), famous for several cycles for being the Republican with the most-Democratic district in the House.
Matthew Yglesias » Little Evidence to Support Gerrymandering-Polarization Link
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Yet the evidence they adduce for this proposition is ambigous, anecdotal, and conclusionary.
Who Wins Custody in Contested Divorce Cases?
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The slight note of annoyance may have been as much a reaction to what in anecdotal evidence has been described as Tsietsi's somewhat pompous and arrogant attitude as it was an indication of Morobe's disappointment at or criticism of the departure of their leader.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
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Most of the feedback is personal and anecdotal, but practitioners at the bench found the books extremely helpful; they were so heavily used that the softback format was not durable enough and hardly any copies of Part I are left.
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And the accumulation of evidence not just your and my anecdotal evidence suggests that this is true.
Message to a Conservative Christian About the Homosexual Morality Issue
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Most of these alternative treatments are scientifically unproven, but are supported by vast anecdotal evidence.
Christianity Today
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This has been reported anecdotally to occur in animals that have crop-eared offspring.
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And I can't speak for every citizen in the city of Cedar Rapids, which is a city of 120,000 people, but anecdotally, yes, many of the people that we talked to said because they were told they live in a 500-year floodplain, meaning something like this only happens every 500 years, that they did not need flood insurance, and so they didn't buy it.
CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2008
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anecdotal evidence
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in his famously anecdotal style
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The two tropes are geology and archaeology integrated into an anecdotal, memorialising narrative form that demands admiration for its adroitness.
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I believe the best they can do is to continue to fall back on anecdotal and wholly impressionistic (mostly media-guided wish-fulfilling pronouncements) which appear, on the surface to have an objective basis in fact, but which, upon careful analysis and examination, is revealed to be embarrassingly hollow, mostly ephemeral, always reversible, and based on the filmiest and softest of evidence.
Is Obama's Election as the First Black President Conclusive Evidence of the Civil Rights Movement's Success?
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All of this anecdotal evidence has made me leery of the concept.
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Ange admits to disliking discursive, essayistic language in poetry (and I totally agree that such anecdotal reportage is almost always tiresome), but I am not so sure that the cited poets, whom she dislikes, actually make a habit of indulging in such asensual, abstract writing at all.
Writing and Failure (Part 7) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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In the absence of any hard evidence, the information remained anecdotal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anecdotal is just a sneery faux-academic word for reported.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anecdotal evidence suggests, however, that most accounts are not "memorialized" & mdash; they patiently await the next status update that will never come like faithful Hachikō.
Rudy Adler: The Rise of the Dead: How Many Ghosts Are on Facebook?
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Although statistics are hard to come by, anecdotal evidence suggests that there were fewer accidents ten years ago.
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However, aside from anecdotal reports of color changes in various pelagic fish, particularly billfish, little else is known.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that managers are increasingly spending time repairing social relations damaged by hasty, ill-considered and intemperate electronic communications.
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We have to rely instead on anecdotal evidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although statistics are hard to come by, anecdotal evidence suggests that there were fewer accidents ten years ago.
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Many of these enquiries were based on anecdotal evidence and coloured by popular prejudices.
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But anecdotal evidence suggests that many PRs charge much more.
Times, Sunday Times
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An interest in allotments is a phenomenon in itself, and anecdotal evidence suggests that visitors to allotments go to collect practical tips.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Obama on Wednesday staged an event at the White House on "insourcing" - the administration's attempt to create a phenomenon of the anecdotal evidence that suggests some American companies are choosing to re-establish manufacturing operations in the United States rather than Asia.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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Historic accounts of this era give no indication of any negative impact to fish populations and in fact, anecdotal accounts reflect quite the opposite.
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Other studies, some no more than anecdotal reports, suggest higher figures.
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They are, by all anecdotal accounts, suffering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evidence of this mass return of the downsizer is not purely anecdotal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anecdotal evidence from bookkeeping chains confirms that a new demographic is emerging, as is a new way of betting - for example, placing a bet on who will score the next goal is becoming common.
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The results include anecdotal but compelling evidence that officers are already becoming less inclined to take the risks needed to prevail in battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Substantial anecdotal evidence indicates that men have not always been cooperative partners when it comes to the matter of family planning.
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Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe/Beowulf Sheehan Garrison Keillor - anecdotalist, radio host and laureate of small-town wholesomeness - is publishing a book of Interviewed about the book, Keillor found himself discussing the reaction to an anthology he published a few years ago; specifically, the admired modernist poet full-frontal assault on Keillor's "appalling taste".
The Guardian World News
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I have quoted part of the petition at length, because its anecdotal and tonal qualities are lost in summary.
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Until recently, documentation of elevated cancer rates in the area was limited to such anecdotal accounts.
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And I am an anecdotalist. posted by Michelle @ 4: 24 PM,
La Profesora Abstraida
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Publishers once relied on anecdotal feedback about what titles were actually selling out of bookstores, hoping for reorders instead of returns.
Representations of Race, Realities of Publishing
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Actually, as soon as I posted that, as I was toddling off to my bed, my immediate thought was that I was glossing over the way magic realism uses diegesis in exactly that way, to give a sense of a told tale — “there was once a boy” — and for precisely those reasons — influence by folktales, the anecdotal form, all the told tales of a culture.
War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…
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The impeccable and perceptive draughtsman Ingres is represented by one of the anecdotal pictures in which he delighted, The Betrothal of Raphael, and the last of his four versions of Oedipus and the Sphinx.
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At the moment reports are anecdotal and paint an incomplete picture.
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Do I then have anecdotal evidence?
Times, Sunday Times
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Actual data and scientifically sound information would be required to revoke any tolerances, and some assumptive or anecdotal information would be disallowed.
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He also has a parallel career as a cricket writer and has published two anecdotal histories of Indian cricket.
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Anecdotally, the former journalist and television presenter has a fair wind behind her.
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Reviewers of manuscripts sometimes reject research because it is anecdotal, based on a case study, or founded on too small a sample and therefore not generalizable.
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We would be left with only anecdotal information on which to base prognosis and treatment for many common cancers and we would know much less about many common diseases.
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Most of the articles have serious points to make, and only J. T. Bonner's amusing essay largely devoted to his social encounters with Haldane is purely anecdotal.
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Insights, while not necessarily inaccurate, are frequently based on anecdotal evidence and hence impressionistic.
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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
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Li said that there had always been traditional wisdom and anecdotal evidence for sex selection methods, such as altering the pH level of vaginal fluids by douching the vagina with vinegar.
