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human-interest

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hu·man-in·ter·est (hymn-ntrst, -tr-st, -trst)
adj.
Presenting people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that arouses interest or sympathy: a human-interest story.


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It adds a human-interest story to the history of the battle for racial equality in America.
Nevertheless, the human-interest themes transcend time and place, and readers will chuckle over the eccentricities of fully dimensional characters whose experiences and escapades are often comical.
It was my first year in Chile, just having left my first big journalism job at The Miami Herald, where news for my beat meant mayors and police chiefs, with the occasional human-interest story for the weekend edition.
 
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