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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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