as in biographies
a history of a person's life
you can read a bio of the author on her home page
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Recent Examples of bios
Quick bios have always played up Newsom’s close relationship (and business ties) with the heirs to the Getty oil fortune and links to San Francisco’s political aristocracy.
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Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
When bios were shared, every other challenger shot up, and the lead shifted to Miller, the board chair of Planned Parenthood of Illinois who has made health care access a top campaign issue.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Families read through student bios and book sessions of up to 8 hours.
—Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 28 Jan. 2026
But considering Dowdle has already removed the Panthers from his social media bios, such a reunion seems unlikely.
—Joseph Person, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Pahlavi dropped these words from his social-media bios last week.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
Core elements include responsive design, IDX integration, neighborhood pages, agent bios, blog, reviews, and lead forms.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
The current TikTok and Instagram bios for Stranger Things however debunk this.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
Everyone on Broadway has Law & Order somewhere in their Playbill bios and, with the ascendancy of The Gilded Age, maybe a prestige HBO credit, too.
—The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
When bios were shared, every other challenger shot up, and the lead shifted to Miller, the board chair of Planned Parenthood of Illinois who has made health care access a top campaign issue.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Families read through student bios and book sessions of up to 8 hours.
—Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 28 Jan. 2026
But considering Dowdle has already removed the Panthers from his social media bios, such a reunion seems unlikely.
—Joseph Person, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Pahlavi dropped these words from his social-media bios last week.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
Core elements include responsive design, IDX integration, neighborhood pages, agent bios, blog, reviews, and lead forms.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
The current TikTok and Instagram bios for Stranger Things however debunk this.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
Everyone on Broadway has Law & Order somewhere in their Playbill bios and, with the ascendancy of The Gilded Age, maybe a prestige HBO credit, too.
—The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bios
Noun
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In an afterword, there are biographies of people well known to us (and some forgotten) who played a part in our city’s history.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
1 Feb. 2026
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Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin certainly have more compelling biographies, and Georges Seurat—of Sunday in the Park with George fame—has been played on Broadway by the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal.—
J. S. Marcus,
Air Mail,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Yet perhaps even more striking than the pictures are the words taken from prisoners’ letters, diaries, and memoirs.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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Both memoirs prepare the lay gambler for a world of gruelling, bruising defeats and unglamorous back-of-the-envelope calculus.—
Dan Piepenbring,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Bios.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bios. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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