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autobiography

[aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-] / ˌɔ tə baɪˈɒg rə fi, -bi-, ˌɔ toʊ- /


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Pat Cummins has spoken to Usman Khawaja about his former team-mate's upcoming autobiography, but the Australia captain said he has no concerns about potential sandpapergate revelations.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Still, she looms large in Lowen’s imagination, especially when she finds a secret autobiography in which Verity reveals her darkest secrets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I would photograph each object and write down the story behind it, like a mini autobiography: why I kept it, what it says about who I was at the time.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Elsewhere, Mr. Tommasini quotes the same remark from Anderson’s autobiography in two different chapters, a lapse better editing should have caught.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“How is it possible to write one’s autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

The book’s leading actors have been subjects of biographies and autobiographies, and most events have been exhaustively covered in scholarly and popular histories and articles as well as media reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

“The projections mirror and amplify that as part of the visual vocabulary, whether that’s Douglass’ newspaper articles or autobiographies, or the text of the Emancipation Proclamation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025

"In fact she wrote two autobiographies herself so the story is out there but although she was known completely throughout the Commonwealth she is hardly known today which is sad."

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024

Chapter 9 is about Frederick Douglass and identity-aware liberalism, as expressed through his autobiographies.

From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024

It is not enough to say that my mother and father do not want to write their autobiographies.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez




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