personal history
Example Sentences
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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
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
Wohl is writing a personal history that is not her own.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
It’s too late to rewrite your personal history, but you can change the final chapters.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 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
