[Vocabulary] Does changing "account" into "story" makes sentence different in this sentence?

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Does changing "account" into "story" makes sentence different in this sentence?

"Marry gave a police full account of the incident."
Does changing "account" into "story" makes sentence different in the above sentence?
 

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Re: Does changing "account" into "story" makes sentence different in this sentence?

"Mary gave the police a full account of the incident."
Does changing "account" into "story" makes sentence different in the above sentence?

You could write "Mary gave the police the full story of the incident". I prefer the first example (with my corrections).
 
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