as in biography
a history of a person's life
you can read a bio of the author on her home page
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Recent Examples of bio
Well, in some ways a lot of Dylan’s fakery of his own bio has always been very amusing.
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Tiara owns a professional catering company, per her Instagram; Croix is an animator and artist, per his website; and Lucky is the founder of cosmetic company Pretty Lucky Lips, per her Instagram bio.
—Ariana Quihuiz, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Mlinko’s use of my memoir Black Dog of Fate as a frame for my poem may offer a brief bio but has little relevance to the poem.
—Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 23 Oct. 2025
According to an official bio, the band formed in 1979 when Ball and Almond met as students at Leeds Polytechnic in England after Ball, a fan of the popular northern soul sound and German techno group Kraftwerk, moved from Blackpool to Leeds to study fine art.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Tiara owns a professional catering company, per her Instagram; Croix is an animator and artist, per his website; and Lucky is the founder of cosmetic company Pretty Lucky Lips, per her Instagram bio.
—Ariana Quihuiz, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Mlinko’s use of my memoir Black Dog of Fate as a frame for my poem may offer a brief bio but has little relevance to the poem.
—Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 23 Oct. 2025
According to an official bio, the band formed in 1979 when Ball and Almond met as students at Leeds Polytechnic in England after Ball, a fan of the popular northern soul sound and German techno group Kraftwerk, moved from Blackpool to Leeds to study fine art.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bio
Noun
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The first biography of James Schuyler suggests that his tendency to withdraw was both a harbinger of his disabling mood disorder and the wellspring of his shimmering poetry.—
Langdon Hammer,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Oct. 2025
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Born in Ogden, Utah, in 1940, Stallings served a mission to New Zealand for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the early 1960s, according to his House of Representatives biography.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Oct. 2025
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Tuesday marked the publication of Nobody’s Girl, Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, which might have turned the spotlight back onto the president’s long friendship with Epstein.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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From memoir to literary fiction and from light to dark, these stories—though often complex in content—envelop us in simpler times.—
Nora Dahlia,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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