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  • noun Plural form of biographee.

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Examples

  • Who's Who relies on information furnished exclusively by its "biographees," included by invitation on the basis of past achievement or future promise (still trying to figure out which category I fit into).

    A Soldier's Perspective 2008

  • "biographees," included by invitation on the basis of past achievement or future promise.

    Freep.com - RSS 2008

  • The four whom he chose as his main biographees were men whose lives were hostage to a predicament that also held some key to their genius.

    Ian Hamilton Soueif, Ahdaf 2005

  • Then let him read biography and note the paralyzing effect upon the biographees of sickness and half sickness and three quarter wellness.

    The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

  • After life's fitful fever they sleep (I trust) well; and in common candour, it ought never to be forgotten that whilst it has always been the fashion -- until one memorable day Mr. Froude ran amuck of it -- for biographers to shroud their biographees (the American Minister must bear the brunt of this word on his broad shoulders) in a crape veil of respectability, the records of the stage have been written in another spirit.

    Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891

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