as in memoir
a history of a person's life
an unauthorized biography of the actor gave him some serious headaches
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Recent Examples of biography
In October 2025, the library had a similar interaction when an unknown customer returned a copy of Hunter Davies' 1968 biography of The Beatles to its Avondale Branch after it was checked out in 1975.
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Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2026
The lessons are informed not only by Appleton’s biography but also the trials and successes of his A-list clientele.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Jan. 2026
As a fictional biography, what Edwards-Jones and Patterson have created is engaging and sympathetic.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Nearly a century later, the cause of Christie’s disappearance is still widely debated, and biographies about Christie have not provided any more information about the incident.
—Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
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Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2026
The lessons are informed not only by Appleton’s biography but also the trials and successes of his A-list clientele.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Jan. 2026
As a fictional biography, what Edwards-Jones and Patterson have created is engaging and sympathetic.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Nearly a century later, the cause of Christie’s disappearance is still widely debated, and biographies about Christie have not provided any more information about the incident.
—Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biography
Noun
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The shooter left behind documents that include journals, a suicide note and a memoir, according to court filings.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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Spears discussed her family drama in her own memoir, The Woman in Me, which was released in 2024.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
5 Feb. 2026
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Troublemaker, a historical documentary from Antoine Fuqua, draws on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Her memoir Swimming Studies won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.—
Leanne Shapton,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Biography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biography. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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