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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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When she said she needed space after her divorce, he obliged, then called her a few months later and asked, “Will you go out with me now?” according to his autobiography.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Maya Angelou’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was included in the purge; Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” was not.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

Miller “soon put the enemy to flight at the point of a bayonet, capturing their colors and most of their arms,” Mr. Hemming writes, quoting Cochrane’s 1859 autobiography.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Perhaps we will have to wait for Sir Keir's inevitable post-premiership autobiography for the unvarnished truth.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

“I soon noticed that, after losing a few games of chess, my opponent talked less of masculine superiority,” she wrote in her autobiography.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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