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
Nathan Kernan’s intrepid new biography of the poet is out now.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
Instead, the aspiring influencer and her royal husband are being dragged into the latest tawdry, scandalous mess involving Harry’s dissolute uncle, Prince Andrew, thanks to a new new biography about the disgraced Duke of York.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2025
Written for middle-grade readers, the biography series features Dakota and Ojibwe leaders and changemakers who were pivotal to Minnesota and the United States.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
Carrie and Aidan are done again, again, and now Carrie is embracing a flirtation and intellectual attraction with her downstairs neighbor, the pipe-smoking biography writer Duncan (Jonathan Cake).
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2025
Instead, the aspiring influencer and her royal husband are being dragged into the latest tawdry, scandalous mess involving Harry’s dissolute uncle, Prince Andrew, thanks to a new new biography about the disgraced Duke of York.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2025
Written for middle-grade readers, the biography series features Dakota and Ojibwe leaders and changemakers who were pivotal to Minnesota and the United States.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
Carrie and Aidan are done again, again, and now Carrie is embracing a flirtation and intellectual attraction with her downstairs neighbor, the pipe-smoking biography writer Duncan (Jonathan Cake).
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biography
Noun
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He’s even written a Spanish-language memoir about his work, titled, appropriately, El Fixer.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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The release comes nearly two years after Spears released a memoir of her own, titled The Woman in Me.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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The poem is a spiritual autobiography, a depiction of ecosystems, and a series of snapshots, all of which reflect one another.—
Dennis McNally,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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In 1995, Anderson released her autobiography My Life in Heels, which detailed her relationship with Reynolds and her struggles to keep her family together.—
Stephanie Wenger,
People.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Biography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biography. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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