personal history
Example Sentences
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Barker found out about his personal history when he decided to go abroad on holiday.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
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
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
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
