saga

plural sagas

1. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
2. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

   Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.

   2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0-4 Man City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2012

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   The latest Fire Emblem, developed by the makers of Advance Wars and available in the U.S., is the seventh game in an epic saga that began 13 years ago on the NES.

   2003 December 28, “Fire Emblem”, in Nintendo Power, volume 174, A Long and Fiery Tradition, page 32

   According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

   2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2020, page 55

1. pluralplural of sagum

1. Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
2. The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.

1. rareA unisex given name.

   Saga Becker

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   2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker

   […] Saga Norén's personal story that forms the series' sentimental narrative. As part of her strategy to develop ways to understand the personal motivations of the killers and other people around her, Saga Norén actively uses her partners[…]

   2019 January 28, Dimitris Akrivos, Alexandros K. Antoniou, Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN, page 34

1. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

   Previously, they had met a man from Saga county, not far from the Nepali border, who had given an interesting piece of information: from his place, he had seen people escaping over a mountain into Nepal.

   2003, Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Snow Lion Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82

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   We saw many other striking manifestations of hydrothermal activity in the Himalayan geothermal belt. The boiling spouters of Namling County, for example, emit endless jets of water and steam; the Rugyog fumarole of Saga County sends up vapors and gases as scorching as the breath of a furnace;[…]

   1982, Zhang Mingtao, The Roof of the World, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73

   More likely than capture is death at the hands of Chinese border police. Killings like that of fifteen-year-old Yeshe Dundrub, shot at night in Saga County (Ch: Saga Xian) in November 1999, while fleeing with forty others to Nepal, are covered up when possible. (Dundrub, whose dream was to be a monk, died in a military hospital bed nine hours after he was shot.)

   2010, Jonathan Green, Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet, 1st edition (Politics), PublicAffairs, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33