as-told-to

[ az-tohld-too ]

/ ˌæzˈtoʊldˌtu /

Informal.

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(of a biographical account) written by a professional author using information from personal conversations with the subject.

an as-told-to biography.

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

First recorded in 1925–30

“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
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Police officials told the AP that they came out with guns blazing.
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Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”
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It was followed by several told-you-so articles with titles like “Have No Illusion: Islam Is the Enemy.”
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I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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The blood that accused his friend in his heart, rushed to his face, when he repeated what had been told him.
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Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.
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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.
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