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anecdote

(a′nek-dōt″) [L. anecdota, unpublished items fr Gr. anekdoton, unpublished]

A brief report of an isolated or unique observation.

anecdotal (a″nek-dō′tălt), adjective

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The main challenge in using vicarious reinforcement to increase the chances of assignment completion is finding appropriate models, whose stories therapists can present in an anecdote. Sources of useful anecdotes include anyone who has carried out a similar task before and benefitted.

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Jazz Anecdotes allows the musicians to speak unabashedly, even with pride about their contributions to twentieth-century American music.

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In this, the Age of Google, pretty much anyone could quickly compile a decent mishmash of anecdotes, after all.

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Just another quick quip and he's on to another anecdote.

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Follow up ..

It is tempting to reply with even more anecdotes of successful heroes, but arguing by anecdote is not, ultimately, a convincing approach.

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Back when I worked as a researcher at RAND, the man in the office next to mine put up a large sign that stated, "Anecdote is the opposite of evidence." OK, only a research geek would actually stick that up on their wall.

Compelling evidence

All this was fairly routine for the Elizabethans in Ireland; what has made Gilbert famous among sixteenth-century Irish historians is a short anecdote rehearsed of him by one of his soldiers, the poet Thomas Churchyard.

Patricia Palmer. Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion

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