Thesaurus results for MEMOIRS

memoirs

noun

plural of memoir

as in biographies

a history of a person's life the former senator has a lucrative contract to write his memoirs, in which he will supposedly set the record straight

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Recent Examples of memoirs Each President has an official photograph of themselves, and Macron’s has him with de Gaulle’s war memoirs in the back. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026 In recent decades, dozens of harrowing memoirs have been written by North Koreans who fled the country. — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026 Li has written 12 other books ranging from novels (both historical and contemporary) to short-story collections, memoirs, and even a picture book. — Sky Davis, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026 Kimmel noted that Kirk had appeared on the show 19 years earlier to promote one of his many memoirs. — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026 By the 2010s, celebrities like Tina Fey, Betty White, Amy Schumer, and Carrie Fisher were recording their memoirs in full (and earning Grammy nominations for their efforts). — Brian Raftery, Vanity Fair, 6 Oct. 2026 Cooper took the others’ perspectives into account (Bruce and Dunaway have both published their own memoirs) for Devil On My Shoulder as well. — Gary Graff, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026 For his part, Khrushchev readily admitted to such behavior in his memoirs, likening his noisy antics to those of revolutionary protesters in the Duma, an imperial Russian legislative body. — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Oct. 2026 But fiction and memoirs focusing on gender identity and LGBTQ+ issues have increasingly become targets of censorship, abetted by right-wing parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty. — Susan Farrell, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026

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Walter Isaacson, author of the Steve Jobs and Elon Musk biographies, is turning his lens on AI.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
There are also biographies of David Beckham, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

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Early-life cognitive ability, measured through those old autobiographies and school records, tracked with better cognitive outcomes decades later.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
Hanks' wife Rita Wilson stars in and co-produces the new show, which features an ever-changing lineup of entertainment, politicians and athletes who read and act out excerpts from other celebrities' autobiographies.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026

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