as in biographies
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a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was
a hagiography of the leader written by one of his closest confidants
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Recent Examples of hagiographies
Evaluations for top performers read as hagiographies.
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Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hagiographies
Noun
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Music biographies often follow a non-fussy trajectory, rallying their base with nostalgic re-creations of big concert moments and a sturdy timeline that begins with an idol’s birth and ending on a critical juncture in its subject’s life or even death.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Moreover, previous biographies of Baldwin, perhaps because they were written by people who knew him, David Leeming the most intimately, become his collaborators.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The memoirs; the second volume is still a work in progress.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
28 Oct. 2025
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McCurdy and Stoner each end their memoirs proud of having emerged into saner adulthoods.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Hagiographies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiographies. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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