personal history

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But the C10 is special as both a rebuild and as a piece of personal history, not only for Rivas and Vera and their team, but for Angelenos and fire survivors.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Doesn’t she have a kind of tangled personal history and reasons not to maybe want to have this American oversight?

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026

It’s too late to rewrite your personal history, but you can change the final chapters.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

"A dear friend who wore his genius lightly, he could, and did, turn his pen to any subject, challenging, moving and inspiring his audiences, borne from his own personal history," they said.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

The profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker