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biographer

[bahy-og-ruh-fer, bee-] / baɪˈɒg rə fər, bi- /






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Sir Anthony Seldon, historian and biographer of prime ministers, praised the subtlety of what the King seemed to have pulled off.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

“Usually these visits are a glorified patting on the back,” said Andrew Roberts, a British historian and royal biographer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

“It was a simple, calculated move,” said Zsuzsanna Szelényi, a biographer of Orbán who joined Fidesz, but later split from the party.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

In the words of biographer David Reynolds, Brown’s execution helped “spark” the Civil War.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

Newton’s modern biographer, Richard Westfall, concludes that we should regard Newton’s claim to have been surprised by the oblong image cast by the prism ‘as a rhetorical device which is not to be understood literally’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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