personal history
Example Sentences
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It was a piece of personal history, perhaps one with generational memories.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
If Artemisia’s dramatic images announced her admiration for Caravaggio’s innovations, her dramatic personal history rivaled that of the bad boy of the Baroque, although, unlike him, she didn’t murder anyone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
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
