as in biographies
a history of a person's life
the former senator has a lucrative contract to write his memoirs, in which he will supposedly set the record straight
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Recent Examples of memoirs
For Macdonald, this most eloquent of memoirs emerged from the death of her father, photographer Alisdair MacDonald, aka Ali Mac.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
There are a lot of divorce memoirs.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the musical follows her coming-of-age story alongside her demanding stage mother Rose in the 1920s and ’30s.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
After enduring a media firestorm, multiple convictions and exonerations, countless interviews and publishing memoirs, Knox is once again sharing her story in Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Based on interviews conducted by journalist Peter Evans, who was engaged in the late 1980s to write Gardner’s memoirs, the play reanimates the combative and complex conversations between the two.
—Rebecca Bihn-Wallace, Vogue, 20 Aug. 2025
But yeah, that was one for the memoirs.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The excerpt alleged that Fergie was able to make a dent in her debts around 1997, paying it down with the advance from her memoirs, money from her deal with WeightWatchers, six interviews with Paris Match and almost $400,000 for two children's books.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Ex-haredim such as Shalom Auslander are writing remarkable memoirs and novels.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
There are a lot of divorce memoirs.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Sep. 2025
Suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the musical follows her coming-of-age story alongside her demanding stage mother Rose in the 1920s and ’30s.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
After enduring a media firestorm, multiple convictions and exonerations, countless interviews and publishing memoirs, Knox is once again sharing her story in Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Based on interviews conducted by journalist Peter Evans, who was engaged in the late 1980s to write Gardner’s memoirs, the play reanimates the combative and complex conversations between the two.
—Rebecca Bihn-Wallace, Vogue, 20 Aug. 2025
But yeah, that was one for the memoirs.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The excerpt alleged that Fergie was able to make a dent in her debts around 1997, paying it down with the advance from her memoirs, money from her deal with WeightWatchers, six interviews with Paris Match and almost $400,000 for two children's books.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Ex-haredim such as Shalom Auslander are writing remarkable memoirs and novels.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoirs
Noun
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Moving forward, mastering a personal podcast could replace soft-focus biographies or wonky books as a way for politicians to increase their profiles.—
David Bauder,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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For years after that, TCU alums who had served as Ranch Week foremen or queen would proudly include it on resumes, in professional biographies or when running for office.—
Matt Leclercq,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Aug. 2025
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That sounds unremarkable now in a landscape of public diaries, memories, and celebrities reading the audiobooks of their autobiographies, but Pepys was something of a groundbreaking force in the genre.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Memoirs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memoirs. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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