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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According to her campaign website biography, Slavensky spent forty years working in California public schools, first as a teacher and then as an administrator — both as a middle and elementary school principal and then as superintendent.
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Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2026
Rodríguez’s family moved to New York City in 1953, a SABR biography noted.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
Each tote included a hangtag with an artist biography and photo.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
Over time, the margins filled with multilingual signatures— English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean—that mingled with his own visual biography.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
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Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2026
Rodríguez’s family moved to New York City in 1953, a SABR biography noted.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
Each tote included a hangtag with an artist biography and photo.
—Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
Over time, the margins filled with multilingual signatures— English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean—that mingled with his own visual biography.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biography
Noun
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The royal family is still upset about the interview Harry and Meghan had with Oprah in 2021, as well as Harry’s memoir, Spare.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
7 May 2026
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This sort-of-memoir is the author’s grandmother telling her life story to the author.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
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Clark’s wise remedy is to strip her fiction of most of those facts, reducing the local references so that the narrative shifts away from singular autobiography toward singular emblem.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Rodrigo has said that, besides autobiography, a few of the songs on this new album are inspired by Miranda and Steve on Sex and the City.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
3 May 2026
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“Biography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biography. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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