memoirs
Britishplural noun
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a collection of reminiscences about a period, series of events, etc, written from personal experience or special sources
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an autobiographical record
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a collection or record, as of transactions of a society, etc
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Her former colleague Pete Hegseth, now secretary of defense, sold more than 300,000 copies of his last two books, both of which were military grievance memoirs.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
Graeme Burk, a Canadian broadcasting historian who edited Newman's memoirs for publication, said none of that would have happened without Hailey's play.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
My own introduction to this came from the memoirs of President Ronald Reagan’s tax-cutting czar David Stockman.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
A welter of memoirs and biographies have traced their colorful lives as well as their relationships with one another and with their hot-tempered father, David.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
After losing his entire fortune to bad investments in the early 1880s, he wrote his memoirs with the help of editor Mark Twain.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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