biographical account

collocation in English

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biographical
adjective
uk
/ˌbaɪ.əˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌbaɪ.oʊˈɡræf.ɪ.kəl/
about ...
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account
noun
uk
/əˈkaʊnt/us
/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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With the decline in collective ritual, everyday conversation becomes the context in which the life of the deceased is reviewed and abiographicalaccountof the dead created.
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Nonetheless, this newbiographicalaccounthas been greeted with some skepticism.
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Most biographical accounts tell that he carried the records with him on his travels and proudly showed them.
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To his followers, however, it is clear from the biographical accounts that he was more to them than just a link in a chain.
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Even today the confrontation is presented as indisputable proof of 'sterling courage,' initiative, and enterprise in some biographical accounts, and its 'image' is endlessly reproduced.
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The biographical accounts continue onwards into the most recent period, the mid-1990s.
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Ultimately, the project aimed to determine whether understandings generated from biographical accounts could lead to recommendations for social policy.
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Many biographical accounts signalled a critical point towards the end of secondary schooling.
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The first three are biographical accounts of the honorand and the remaining fourteen are historical pieces.
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A keeper of diaries and notebooks, as well as a sprightly letter-writer, she began to write abiographicalaccountof her husband while he was still alive.
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This would have been crystal clear to anyone who read the circulating manuscript and printed biographical accounts of him.
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Tucker states in abiographicalaccountthat he was eldest of ten sons and had one sister.
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The narrow geographical remit also permits anecdotes and short biographical accounts to take central positions in what would be mere footnotes to regional or national studies.
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As a result of this, some researchers wishing to develop dynamic analysis have sought to employ qualitative research methods, generally focusing upon biographical accounts of individual life courses.
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Philip prohibited anybiographicalaccountof his life to be published while he was alive, and he ordered that all his private correspondence be burned shortly before he died.
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Aboriginal oral history details accounts of legendary and cultural information, and includes personal biographical accounts.
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The month lasts 2930 days based on the visual sightings of the crescent moon, according to numerous biographical accounts compiled in the hadiths.
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His book is still the most-cited primary source in biographical accounts of the lives of many artists he included.
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It probably contained biographical accounts of actors, and historical notes on stage performances.
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