Thesaurus results for AUTOBIOGRAPHY

autobiography

noun

as in biography

an account of a person's life written by the person it is about I read her autobiography last year and it was surprisingly honest retelling of her rise to fame.

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Recent Examples of autobiography The gap between your real autobiography and your synthetically infused, commercially tainted one drives a pervasive sense of inadequacy, as your actual life fails to live up to a narrative identity that was never yours to begin with. —

Tim Requarth, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2026 Shot across Spain and Cuba in 4K, HD and 16mm, the project blends autobiography and sensory exploration of hearing loss, migration and motherhood. —

Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026 Tears for Fears founding member Roland Orzabal has an autobiography on the way. —

Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026 LeMay ran as the vice-presidential candidate with George Wallace in 1968 and denied ever saying anything that was in his own autobiography, albeit ghostwritten. —

Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for autobiography

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biography

Noun

According to a biography on the NACDL’s website, Newberger previously held the position of president of the Maryland Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.

— Adam Bednar, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2026
The subject of this engaging biography is the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who is often ridiculed as a faulty precursor to Darwin.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026