personal history
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpersonalandhistory
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personal
adjective
uk/ˈpɜː.sən.əl/us/ˈpɝː.sən.əl/
relating or belonging to a single or particular person rather than to a group or ...
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history
noun
uk/ˈhɪs.tər.i/us/ˈhɪs.t̬ɚ.i/
(the study of or a record of) past events considered together, especially events of a particular period, country, ...
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(Definition ofpersonalandhistoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But at the very least the bond gives rise to a sharedpersonalhistory.
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First, it concerns the concept of the subject doing the thinking : as a discrete rational agent, unaffected bypersonalhistory, psychoanalytic forces or socioeconomic context.
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Being told that one does not look one's age is meant, and is usually taken, as a compliment not an erasure of one'spersonalhistory.
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A briefpersonalhistorywas taken, that covered the participants' own eating behaviour and views regarding their own body image.
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It is such linkages - much more than thepersonalhistoryof a particular storyteller - that gave these stories both impact and specificity.
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He helped bridge the gap between complexpersonalhistoryand official public memory.
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Behind that apparently matter-of-fact phrasing lies a traumaticpersonalhistory.
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Thepersonalhistoryshe reveals in the pages that follow is certainly deeply felt, but it is also deeply contested.
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The researcher wants to know some aspect of the participant's character, attitudes, orpersonalhistory.
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Unfortunately, the broad sweep of our own investigation provides little information about thepersonalhistoryand family circumstances of individual women.
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In different ways, the residency and age requirements made time, with reference topersonalhistory, a defining element.
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No one doubts that the brain encodes the visual world or that it encodespersonalhistory.
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The social constructionist dimension acknowledges how individual subjective experience is deeply embedded in both the immediate social context andpersonalhistory.
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An alternative approach to obtainingpersonalhistorydata.
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Interconnections among experiences cannot be made, and the resulting gaps inpersonalhistorycompromise both the complexity and the integrity of the self.
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Apersonalhistoryof breast cancer indicates an increased risk of contralateral breast cancer.
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What historical relation should hold between two or more person-stages such that we could say that these person-stages form one person with onepersonalhistory?
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Maury had also formed a link between hispersonalhistoryand his interest in dreams.
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In doing so, she contends the importance of lifetime, experiences, andpersonalhistoryof the individuals behind the works under consideration.
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At some point in the first model, identity becomes ahistorical, whilst in the second a balance is negotiated betweenpersonalhistoryand current circumstances.
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