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 Peter’s alibi is quite strong, but poking holes through it is not impossible, and Elsbeth is as dogged in her investigations as Peter is in pursuit of his various bad priorities (according to his and Bill’s biography, The Hepson Way, his dislikes include inflation, DEI, and CEOs. Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2025 Log in to hide ads. To truly resonate, a happy place should be a landmark in one’s personal biography. Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2025 Radio Paradise also offers extensive biographies of artists both famous and obscure. The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg has removed his pronouns from his biography on X, formerly Twitter, according to a prominent account on the social media platform. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for biography 

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“Biography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biography. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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