tale-telling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tale-telling
Adjective
  • In Finlay Donovan Plays with Fire, Finlay faces the disappearance of her gossipy neighbor, Stacey Pickens, after the two have an altercation.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • There's cynic Kate (Fey) and her golden retriever husband Jack (Forte), even more cynical and gossipy Danny (Domingo) and his urbane husband Claude (Marco Calvani), Nick's aggrieved ex-wife Anne and his very pregnant girlfriend Ginny.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 28 May 2026
Adjective
  • Park, hitherto a fount of articulate thoughts, is suddenly coy.
    Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The most articulate member of the team, Johnston knows better than anyone how to talk his way through any problem.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 12 June 2026
Adjective
  • Advertisement Then too, there’s the voluble—sometimes volatile—Musk himself.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 June 2026
  • Concerns about Trump’s ability to carry out his duties have grown so voluble that there are now competing efforts to either invoke the 25th amendment or compel him to resign in a last-ditch effort to contain the damage.
    John Whitehead, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The announcement follows mounting pressure on the prime minister after Labour suffered heavy losses in local elections in May and faced an increasingly vocal rebellion from his own lawmakers over his leadership and policy agenda.
    Hugh Leask, CNBC, 22 June 2026
  • While the singer-songwriter has been vocal about her disdain for generative AI models, her latest argument against it comes after learning hundreds of her own songs have been used for training purposes.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2026
Adjective
  • Mary disrupts Clark’s equilibrium with the Backrooms by refusing to validate his excuses for his behavior, fully calling out his failings, his petty assholery, and his glib, solipsistic lies.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • Every sentence arrives polished into bite-size emotional shorthand—ridiculous, slightly glib, but not entirely wrong.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026
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“Tale-telling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tale-telling. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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