"success story" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: success stories [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} success story (plural success stories)
  1. Anecdotal evidence for the benefits of some product or policy. Translations (anecdotal evidence): 成功案例 (chénggōng ànlì) (Chinese Mandarin), succesverhaal [neuter] (Dutch), edulugu (Estonian), menestystarina (Finnish), Erfolgsgeschichte [feminine] (German), Erfolgsstory [feminine] (German), sikertörténet (Hungarian), suksesshistorie [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), suksesshistorie [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-success_story-en-noun-w5-YYtiM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of 'anecdotal evidence': 89 11
  2. A successful person or thing, serving as a model for others. Related terms: short story, cover story, story editor, storybook, success message, success metric, successlessness Translations (successful person or thing): menestystarina (Finnish), success story [feminine] (French), Vorbild [neuter] (German), Vorzeigeperson [neuter] (German), Erfolgsmodell [neuter] (German), Musterbeispiel [neuter] (German), Verkörperung [feminine] (German), sikertörténet (Hungarian), suksesshistorie [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), suksesshistorie [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), başarı hikayesi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-success_story-en-noun-vEEG0B~9 Disambiguation of 'successful person or thing': 6 94

Inflected forms

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