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noun

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Recent Examples of tell-all
Noun
Employees and intimates wrote tell-all books, stole memorabilia and blackmailed her. Paul Liberatore, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025 From their first meeting to her tell-all memoir, here's a look back at Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's relationship. Julie Tremaine, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025 Trump's orders revoked the security clearances for Christopher Krebs, the former head of DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Miles Taylor, a former senior DHS official who wrote a highly critical tell-all book about his time in Trump's first administration. Josh Meyer, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025 Covering their reunion is Sunny, a Black journalist who has a personal connection to Opal, and is determined to land the tell-all story behind the pair. Meg Zukin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tell-all
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
  • Her testimony offered the jury context about how abuse can form and continue in intimate partner relationships, for jurors to compare the information to the circumstances being presented to them.
    Elizabeth Rosner, People.com, 21 May 2025
  • Her mom has trouble with intimate relationships and is sort of like a boy crazy mom, and Taylor's the one that's seeing the manifestation of that, and essentially comforting her mother and trying to help her.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • This five-part series will be the all-encompassing, quintessential chronicle of this team and its seven Hall of Fame players.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 May 2025
  • And once the band is established, the chronicle of everything that’s gone on among them stops being the nexus of the show.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • In a world of algorithm game-playing and lyrics bundled with gossipy subtext, the band’s songs — which deftly blend garage rock and shoegaze — function as talismans affirming the importance of standing tall by your convictions.
    Sophie Williams, Billboard, 1 May 2025
  • There’s plenty of drama to go around — especially once gossipy talk show hosts, cruel vloggers and even campy drag queens join in on the action to tear its titular drama queens to shreds.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • While pyramids may remind us of the ancient past, there are still plenty of examples of them in the architecture of today.
    Ashley Gardini, JSTOR Daily, 13 May 2025
  • The 32 best shows on Paramount+ In the final episodes of season 2, Colter finds a phone number amongst his dad's keepsakes that belongs to a scientist, David Pearson, with a shady past and ties to the U.S. government.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Employees who join a startup often thrive in fast-moving, informal environments, so when the company begins to scale, there’s often a fear of losing that agility.
    Lyuba Brouillard, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Though there was no official vote, an informal vote revealed the teams were split 16-16 on the matter, according to an individual in the room during deliberations.
    Tess DeMeyer, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Her hardscrabble upbringing in Kentucky, immortalized in her autobiography and its film version (starring Sissy Spacek as Lynn in an Oscar-winning role), seemed to drive her unapologetic approach to music.
    Lindsay Kusiak, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
  • After years of denying the allegations, Rose finally admitted to betting on baseball teams, including his own, in his 2004 autobiography, Pete Rose: My Story.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Combs' lawyers have argued the law has a history of racial bias that rarely results in prosecution.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • As one of the world’s most famous supermodels, Gisele Bündchen has quite the A-list dating history.
    Kelsey Lentz, People.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Tell-all.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tell-all. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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