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Recent Examples of tell-all
Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
Rinna is clear that this isn’t a Housewives tell-all.
—Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 20 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
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Brooklyn’s tell-all Instagram Story called out his parents’ actions toward him and his now-wife, Nicola Peltz-Beckham.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
Rinna is clear that this isn’t a Housewives tell-all.
—Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 20 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
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The spa The on-site spa is small and intimate, with just a few treatment beds, which makes booking in advance highly recommended.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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His role is to capture those intimate moments just seconds after a performance has finished, becoming the first camera operator in Olympic history to be allowed onto the ice.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Emmy winner Paris Barclay‘s 105-minute chronicle of the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Billy Preston is a treasure trove for classic rock and soul music fans.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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Fennell's film chronicles only the first half of the novel, with several characters omitted and plot points changed along the way.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Feb. 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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Archaeologists continued to dig into the distant past to discover a wealth of animals that once walked Lunan Beach, including red deer and roe deer as well as humans—some of whom were barefoot, according to the University of Aberdeen.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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His lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, sought to show that his past had formed him, but there was a cruel irony in the reference.—
Gaby Wood,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Political interference, informal blacklists of filmmakers, and public attacks on artists have become systemic.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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Guests will encounter Alice, enjoy boutique shopping, and indulge in teas, pastries, tea sandwiches, champagne, live music, and informal modeling.—
Dawn Giangiulio,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Dando, who was an alternative-rock sensation in the Nineties, wrote about his mental health struggles in his autobiography, Rumors of My Demise, which came out last year.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2026
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After Fuller’s death in 1997, Lang set out to have his autobiography, A Third Face, posthumously edited and published.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Ficke was Moe’s right-hand man with the Nuggets from 1982-84, the Abbott to his Costello, at the start of one of the most successful — and absolutely bonkers — periods of the team’s history.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
18 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, all 17 of the album's tracks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, making Bad Bunny the first Latin artist in history to have over 100 entries on the chart.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 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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