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Recent Examples of pathography
Seife is not committing pathography.
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James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pathography
Noun
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The low rates of the recent past make these homeowners reluctant to sell their properties, depriving the market of inventory.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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In Bug, Carrie Coon's Agnes White — an Oklahoma waitress too exhausted to outrun her past — faces a more persistent threat.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Idaho has history of laws targeting trans people Over the past several years, the Idaho Legislature and lawmakers across the country have passed a series of bills targeting transgender youth and adults, several of which are now being litigated.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
10 Jan. 2026
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Trump’s words and actions now have observers reaching for the history books.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Her bookcase displays her many publications: her psychobiography of the poet Robert Lowell, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and her books on suicide, on exuberance and on the connection between mania and artistic genius.—
Casey Schwartz,
New York Times,
22 May 2023
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First Freud’s patient in the 1920s, in 1930 Bullitt also became his collaborator, co-writing a dubious psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson.—
Patrick Blanchfield,
The New Republic,
1 Sep. 2022
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This chronicle of the Hunkpapa war chief Sitting Bull is told primarily from the perspectives of the Lakotas and the Northern Cheyennes who fought in the Great Sioux War of 1876, in which Army forces battled for control of the Black Hills.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Directed and written by Scott Cooper based on a book by Warren Zanes, the micro-biopic chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 acoustic album Nebraska.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2026
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Across a dozen episodes, the series contextualizes Kuti’s importance in post-colonial Nigeria—and beyond—without slipping into hagiography.—
Benjamin Cannon,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
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But Burns and Botstein don’t give them the hagiography treatment.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Nov. 2025
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“Pathography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathography. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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