Faces in a Crowd Vox Obscura
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anecdoche
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n. a conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening—instead merely overlaying words like a spoken game of Scrabble, each player borrowing bits of others' anecdotes to build out their own, until we reach a point when we all run out of things to say.
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From anecdote, a short and often amusing account of real-life events + synecdoche, a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole. Pronounced "un-nek-doh-kee."