"the story goes" meaning in English

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          "text": "The story goes that they won the day."
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          "text": "James Kirkwood's play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! opened nearly three years ago on Broadway, and, so the story goes, was promptly killed by critics — presumably because of its gay material.",
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        "The story is usually depicted as follows."
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          "word": "rumour has it"
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          "word": "on dit (que…)"
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          "word": "il parait (que…)"
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