noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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new
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Warren Rudman in a candid new biography .
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I also reported that Tom Bower, biographer of Robert Maxwell, had a new biography deal.
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Marje now admits that her carefully nurtured image has been torn apart by revelations from a new biography .
■ VERB
include
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Also, include a brief biography and, if possible, a picture.
read
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In fact, you will find very little of interest at all if you have read any previous Fitzgerald biographies .
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His reading consisted mostly of biography and works on history, government, and politics.
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It's like reading a biography of a favourite author to learn what makes them tick.
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I would read biography after biography as a kid.
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She remembered reading a biography of a Tsarist émigré after the Revolution and the phrase came back to her.
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About three years ago, she started reading biographies about her grandfather because she wanted to learn the truth for herself.
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He would read every current biography , and nearly every government white paper.
write
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She was a well-known author in her day, writing fiction, biographies , translations, and even plays for children.
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She wrote the first Kerouac biography in 1973.
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He did not write a biography .
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Maybe he would write her biography .
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They had met originally when Verrall was writing a biography of Cromwell for which William had done much of the research.
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Why nobody has ever written a biography of David is beyond me.
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Ermold wrote his verse biography of Louis to win back imperial favour.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
potted history/biography/version
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Keeping a job file Your employer will have a personnel file containing a potted history of your career with the company.
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Martin's potted history of each railway is certainly sufficiently detailed to whet the appetite enough to free buttocks from armchair Dralon.
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They were farcically satirical potted biographies in sets of two rhyming couplets.
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Woven into these personal accounts are potted histories of disturbing events, ancient and modern.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now' is an authorized biography of the former Beatle by Barry Miles.
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Boswell's biography of Dr Johnson
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He has slammed an unauthorised biography which he claims contains 'factual errors'.
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Isaac Deutscher's outstanding biographies of Stalin and Trotsky
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She's the author of three acclaimed biographies.
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She is the author of several books, including a biography of the artist Salvador Dali.
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This is a competent and well-researched biography .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first, these biographies were simply invented.
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But Wyler is barely more visible in his biography than in his films.
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Moral careers, as we have seen, are lives organised around exemplary biographies.
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No biographies have been written about him, and none ever will be.
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Odo's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues.
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Plowing through this masterpiece of biography , he was haunted by a question.
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She wrote the first Kerouac biography in 1973.
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The third was a lengthy and dully-written biography of a late nineteenth-century general.