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tale
noun as in story
noun as in made-up story
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As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
Not that the demonstration had anything to do with this couple, whom Sarah seems to see as a fairy tale come to life.
Were the fairy-tale true it really would shame the affluent west.
Whilst Whitacre never defined himself as an “ally,” this remains a cautionary tale of what not to do.
Urban America is often portrayed as a tale of two kinds of places, those that “have it” and those who do not.
But he was ignorant of that part of the horrid tale; and the Duke, in a milder voice, bade him rise.
Never had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.
The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.
Until very recently little has been known of the strange land in which the subject of this tale lives.
That was how I learnt the strangest tale that ever a man was told, and knew the miracle to which I owed my life.
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On this page you'll find 109 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tale, such as: account, anecdote, fable, fiction, legend, and myth.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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