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 One claim from the new biography is that more than 40 women were brought to his hotel during a stay in Bangkok in 2006. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 Sep. 2025 Townsend Handles Ostapenko Insults With Gibson Grace Part of Gibson’s biography includes overcoming racial discrimination. Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 While skittishly edited, the film nevertheless builds up Faithfull’s biography in basic chronological order. Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025 But with all of her achievements, why go there so quickly in her biography? Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for biography
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Noun
  • Also starring Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy is based on a pair of memoirs by father and son David and Nic Sheff.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Elsewhere there will be Waiting For the Out, the adaptation of Andy West’s memoir written by Dennis Kelly about a philosopher teaching prisoners concepts such as dominance and free will only to have his own past unravel.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In her autobiography, Gibson wrote about biding her time rather than choosing to agitate.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Like her other books comprising private connections and recollections, Romano preferred to call Le parole a novel rather than a memoir or autobiography, seeing the distinction between fact and fiction as an irrelevant one for literature.
    Brian Robert Moore September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025

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