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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anecdotes; by means of anecdote.

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  • Adam Greene, who was the primary author of the proposed rule before leaving HHS for a private law firm, said the department began hearing anecdotically that people wanted answers: Has my ex-husband, who works at the hospital but wasn't part of my care team, seen my medical records?

    Greater patient access to records proposed 2011

  • Adam Greene, who was the primary author of the proposed rule before leaving HHS for a private law firm, said the department began hearing anecdotically that people wanted answers: Has my ex-husband, who works at the hospital but wasn't part of my care team, seen my medical records?

    Greater patient access to records proposed 2011

  • Adam Greene, who was the primary author of the proposed rule before leaving HHS for a private law firm, said the department began hearing anecdotically that people wanted answers: Has my ex-husband, who works at the hospital but wasn't part of my care team, seen my medical records?

    Greater patient access to records proposed 2011

  • Adam Greene, who was the primary author of the proposed rule before leaving HHS for a private law firm, said the department began hearing anecdotically that people wanted answers: Has my ex-husband, who works at the hospital but wasn't part of my care team, seen my medical records?

    Greater patient access to records proposed 2011

  • You know, Betty, I think anecdotically they sort of have known this for some time that there may be some benefit from actually using the birth control pill in terms of warding off ovarian cancer.

    CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2008 2008

  • Also anecdotically but not without sound science behind, I remember growing up with the constant burden of being hyperreactive to insect bites.

    Ditch your NSAID meds | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006

  • Also anecdotically but not without sound science behind, I remember growing up with the constant burden of being hyperreactive to insect bites.

    Michael R. Eades, M.D.: Ditch your NSAID meds 2006

  • I hear from parents all across the country and I can tell you just anecdotically, they are still very, very concerned.

    Clintons Vp And Mrs Gore At Childrens Tv Conference ITY National Archives 1996

  • In his anecdotically fascinating review of three books on the life of Kim Philby and the Cambridge University spy ring [ "The Fabulous Five," NYR, January 12] Noel Annan leaves the impression that if it were not for John Cairncross (one of the "faithful servants" of the KGB) and his access to Ultra at Bletchley, England, the "rout" of German tanks by the Russians at Kursk could have gone the other way.

    Serving the KGB Dworan, Shale 1995

  • In this work, a part of which is, so far as it extends, a careful compilation from an extensive series of books, the great order mammalia, or, rather, a few of its subjects, is treated anecdotically.

    Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

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