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Recent Examples of tell-all
Thomas Page McBee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
In 2022, the Duchess of Sussex’s estranged half-sister, Samantha Markle, sued her for allegedly defaming her in multiple interviews, including a 2021 tell-all with Oprah Winfrey.
—Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
And now, as the first glimmer of reconciliation has emerged due to aides from the two meeting last month and the possibility of a face-to-face meeting between father and son in the cards, a new tell-all book could bring all of that crashing down.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 Aug. 2025
Three weeks ago, Micah Parsons added a shocking chapter to his saga with the Dallas Cowboys with a tell-all post on social media.
—Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Polidori, ostensibly joining the party as a private physician, had been secretly hired by a publishing house to write a tell-all about Byron.
—Thomas Page McBee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
In 2022, the Duchess of Sussex’s estranged half-sister, Samantha Markle, sued her for allegedly defaming her in multiple interviews, including a 2021 tell-all with Oprah Winfrey.
—Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
And now, as the first glimmer of reconciliation has emerged due to aides from the two meeting last month and the possibility of a face-to-face meeting between father and son in the cards, a new tell-all book could bring all of that crashing down.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 Aug. 2025
Three weeks ago, Micah Parsons added a shocking chapter to his saga with the Dallas Cowboys with a tell-all post on social media.
—Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
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The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office charged Kevin Scholz, 45, of Franklin, with capturing an intimate representation of someone without consent and with disorderly conduct in late September.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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While the figures in some of the larger canvases are reminiscent of Lucian Freud’s twisting and turning sitters, Daushvili’s strongest work is not monumental but small and intimate.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The film’s first half-hour chronicles leftist subversion with documentary precision, as Pat and company bomb campaign headquarters and attempt to take down California’s power grid.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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On the nonfiction side, The Ozu Diaries offers an intimate archival portrait of ur-auteur Yasujiro Ozu, while Juliette Binoche makes her directorial debut with In-I in Motion, a chronicle of her stage collaboration with choreographer Akram Khan.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Potential changes were always a gossipy topic in business and finance.—
Alex Mayyasi,
NPR,
23 Sep. 2025
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With this passage, McEwan’s gossipy details snap into focus.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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This temporal blurring between past and present is echoed in the structure of the installation itself, which creates a kind of time loop between the two films, shuttling the viewer between the immediate danger of the war’s outbreak and the lingering trauma of its memory.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The Six of Cups asks you to revisit your past—not to dwell, but to reclaim lost parts of yourself.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Long sought-after by fans, Electric Nebraska is the informal title of the album that Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded in 1982 from a collection of demos for his follow-up to The River.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2025
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Use just one to three large informal dahlias with smaller additions like spray roses, cosmos, eucalyptus, or larkspur.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Martin Scorsese has always been an open book, a storyteller who has offered his autobiography freely and an auteur whose deepest philosophical themes have been recurring and explored in bold type.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Oct. 2025
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The episode will also feature an interview with singer Cat Stevens (now Yusuf), who will talk about his new autobiography, Cat On The Road To Findout.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The tour highlights the area's history, civil rights movement and recent developments.—
Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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Free to the public — with any order people want to do the crawl in also fine — the stops cover different facets of state and local history.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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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