personal history

Example Sentences

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The personal history between Blanche and Trump came up repeatedly during the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, with Senator Jack Reed comparing him at one point to a mafia adviser.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Each personal history is sketched with a revealing touch: Robbie, returned from war, had “loitered, not entirely fruitlessly, on the fringes of the London literary world, until coming to Honor via a family connection.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

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

Answering questions about her personal history did not jibe with Mommy’s view of parenting twelve curious, wild, brown-skinned children.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride