Short life stories

The answer

BIOS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BIOS answer page.

Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• OBITS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for BIOS

Every other clue in this collection answered by BIOS, most used first.

• Life stories, for short - used 55 times, most recently in 2024
• Life stories - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Life stories, briefly - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Book jacket blurbs - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "Who's Who" entries - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Short personal histories - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• "About the author" pieces - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Book jacket briefs - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Brief lives - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Life histories, briefly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Life stories, in brief - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Resumes - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Short skirt - MINI, used 149 times
• Get ready, for short - PREP, used 123 times
• And others, for short - ETAL, used 111 times
• Life of Riley - EASE, used 109 times
• Larger-than-life - EPIC, used 101 times
• Short distance - STEP, used 100 times

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