How to Use anecdotal in a Sentence

anecdotal

adjective
  • The research is mixed on whether that’s true or anecdotal.
    — Barbara Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The Pro Bowl may be anecdotal but is a fair gauge of talent or lack thereof.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2025
  • At best, the answers were anecdotal, so Olezeski set out to learn more.
    — courant.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • To build up these threats, Trump latched on to anecdotal evidence as proof.
    — cleveland, 17 Jan. 2021
  • And what’s clear, says Rubin, is that this is not just an anecdotal problem.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Much of this reporting comes from anecdotal success since the tech has not yet caught up.
    — Norma Watenpaugh, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • Jackman is one of 30 people who had lived on the streets in the Salem area who died in the past 14 months, according to anecdotal accounts.
    — Saphara Harrell, oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2021
  • And there’s more than anecdotal evidence to back that up.
    — Garrett Snyder Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • One of the sort of benchmark stories about misuse of Wegovy is the anecdotal story about Elon Musk.
    — Sheila Cosgrove Baylis, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • This story doesn’t need an anecdotal lead because each of us has a story of our own.
    — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Some gays left the city, although the facts of that are more anecdotal than empirical.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The list is anecdotal and not evidence of any sweeping fraud.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Malow has seen a lot of anecdotal evidence to back that up at the sleep clinic.
    — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2020
  • So anyway, and a fair amount of sort of anecdotal market research on it and then the numbers sort of spoke for themselves.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 May 2024
  • There was plenty of anecdotal evidence of that, and data seemed to confirm the state of mind.
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Despite the overall support for the cause, the anecdotal evidence has not shown up in the data.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 22 Jan. 2020
  • So far, much of the evidence of the success or failure of the new ordinance is anecdotal.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The album is full of the anecdotal bars that made Von a star, along with some of his most vulnerable moments on record.
    — Dewayne Gage, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The Fed’s 12 districts survey business contacts eight times a year as an anecdotal gauge of the state of the economy.
    — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2020
  • And for some who are eager to conceive, the anecdotal assurance may be enough.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
  • But anecdotal evidence and a bit of mom-sense can tell us a lot about what might be happening.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
  • The study offers anecdotal evidence of these problems from around the world.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • All of the above merely amounts to a compendium of signs and anecdotal evidence that point to the strong likelihood of the return.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 3 Apr. 2022
  • And although this is purely anecdotal, the treatment technique has helped friends of mine.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 6 May 2021
  • Twists with time There are several anecdotal records of peafowl distribution in the Kerala of old: or rather, the lack of it.
    — Aathira Perinchery, Quartz India, 10 Dec. 2019
  • All of my evidence is anecdotal, but based on the numbers, thousands of shoppers seem to agree.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Mario Williams, a civil rights lawyer in Atlanta, said Flores has a strong case because his claims are not just anecdotal.
    — NBC News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • In thousands of anecdotal stories, this is exactly the case.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • There have been anecdotal reports that GLP-1 medications may contribute to anorexia by blunting hunger cues for people who’ve developed an unhealthy aversion to food.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
  • His decisions are transactional, ad hoc, anecdotal, and episodic.
    — Bradley Gitz, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2025

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