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Recent Examples of tell-all
Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Trump's first-term Justice Department sued Wolkoff over the tell-all memoir, but the lawsuit was dropped in 2021.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
At the top of this year’s list is the erotic thriller Best Seller from writer Matisse Haddad about a struggling writer, married to a famous novelist husband, who writes a viral tell-all that ignites a battle between the two.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Dec. 2025
There’s been plenty of drama leading up to its release, but sales of the tell-all have been sluggish.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
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Cooper has become known for her tell-all interviews with Hollywood's A-listers, including guests like Miley Cyrus, Chelsea Handler, John Mayer, Kelsea Ballerini and Kim Kardashian.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Trump's first-term Justice Department sued Wolkoff over the tell-all memoir, but the lawsuit was dropped in 2021.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
At the top of this year’s list is the erotic thriller Best Seller from writer Matisse Haddad about a struggling writer, married to a famous novelist husband, who writes a viral tell-all that ignites a battle between the two.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Dec. 2025
There’s been plenty of drama leading up to its release, but sales of the tell-all have been sluggish.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
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Both Blazy and Anderson, millennials with big brains, are yanking the fusty business of extraordinary clothes into the present – the former with a swell of empathy, and the other with a cerebral but intimate approach.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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Rebecca Loos, David Beckham's former assistant, is finding comfort in Brooklyn Beckham's explosive statement about the intimate details of their family feud.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Taking either path never appealed to Mann, who was determined to deliver justice to Short in his compassionate chronicle of her brief life.—
Nathan Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Soft-spoken, optimistic and resilient, Wyatt published and edited The Villager, a weekly chronicle of East Austin and its people.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Whether set in Jewish eastern Europe or New York’s Lower East Side, Shtok’s range is on full display, from gossipy melodramas and elegiac reveries to coming of age portraits of shtetl adolescents and immigrant hustlers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Certainly the humdrum of legislation or bureaucratic rule-marking is nothing like the gossipy speculation about who may or may not bid to lead California as its 41st governor.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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When Leo breaks his leg and Pia is allowed into the wider world to take over his shady delivery business, Pia begins to ask questions about her family’s past and the secrets her father may be hiding.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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With his car in the shop, Audrey drives Eli to work and school and the two grow closer as Audrey comes to grips with an abusive childhood and Eli wrestles with his shady past.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Nearly two dozen European football association heads held informal talks in Budapest last week to discuss their participation in the World Cup.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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But they were still politically left behind, among the millions of informal squatters who lived in Manila without owning any of it.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Troublemaker, a historical documentary from Antoine Fuqua, draws on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Her memoir Swimming Studies won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.—
Leanne Shapton,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Washington — Federal Reserve officials convene this week at a pivotal moment in the US central bank’s 112-year history, with a series of historic events putting a spotlight on their ability to set interest rates without political interference.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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This is the moment history will ask about.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Her bookcase displays her many publications: her psychobiography of the poet Robert Lowell, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and her books on suicide, on exuberance and on the connection between mania and artistic genius.—
Casey Schwartz,
New York Times,
22 May 2023
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First Freud’s patient in the 1920s, in 1930 Bullitt also became his collaborator, co-writing a dubious psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson.—
Patrick Blanchfield,
The New Republic,
1 Sep. 2022
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