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Recent Examples of tell-all
Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 3 July 2025
The novel alternates between their perspectives, with their voices showcasing different L.A. genres: Wes, a noir, and Roya, a tell-all with Britney Spears songs as the title chapters.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
And your best people leave—not always with a scandal or a tell-all blog post, but in quiet protest.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
There were Hollywood whispers that Sardelli was Hargitay's father, including a mention in a tell-all book about Mansfield written by her former publicist, Rusty Strait (who is also interviewed).
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 14 June 2025
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The stars of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 2 reunited for a tell-all special on July 1 which brought a number of startling revelations to the forefront — and forced the ladies to confront the questions that have been on everyone's minds.
—Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 3 July 2025
The novel alternates between their perspectives, with their voices showcasing different L.A. genres: Wes, a noir, and Roya, a tell-all with Britney Spears songs as the title chapters.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
And your best people leave—not always with a scandal or a tell-all blog post, but in quiet protest.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
There were Hollywood whispers that Sardelli was Hargitay's father, including a mention in a tell-all book about Mansfield written by her former publicist, Rusty Strait (who is also interviewed).
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
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Just for those reasons, to create a more intimate setting.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
1 Aug. 2025
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Crowded House are heading back on the road in Australia this October and November, but this time, fans can expect something a little more intimate.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The docu is done in the spirit of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, the chronicle of Coppola making Apocalypse Now that won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 1992.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
31 July 2025
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This début novel is a chronicle of Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, and follows the efforts of a group of male friends to score drugs, make a few dollars, and inch toward a better life.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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And that gossipy nature that Berger captured appears to be accurate in tone: Vatican insiders have been leaking anonymous attacks against rivals to the Roman press, while some top contenders have suddenly been linked to abuse cases.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
7 May 2025
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Reading back over her sister’s occasionally gossipy letters, maybe Cassie thought those qualities were just too dangerous to reveal publicly.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2025
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At Cecilia Brunson, each of these artworks invites a conversation with past and present, an interpretation of language, of individual and collective thought.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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You can get lost among the details or step back to take in an entire page, which in turn gives artists another unique opportunity: Panels may be arranged so that humor and horror, past and present lay side by side.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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At that initial playoff committee meeting in Daytona Beach, an informal poll in the room showed a split between those who thought a change was desirable (again, including this writer) and those who felt the status quo was fine.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
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Beijing has issued informal guidance to major Chinese tech groups to increase purchases of domestic AI chips in order to reduce reliance on Nvidia and support the evolution of a rival domestic chip ecosystem.—
Eleanor Olcott,
ArsTechnica,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Those are the words of Dana Brown, former Deputy Editor of Vanity Fair, from his 2022 autobiography, Dilettante.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Occom also was the first Native American to write his autobiography.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
Noun
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Antonia Drew Norton, founder and executive director of Asha Family Services, said the child's homicide was directly tied to the family's history of domestic violence and abuse, as documented in public records.—
Ashley Luthern,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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The 35 runs were tied for the second-most coming out of the break in team history, two shy of the franchise record of 37 by the 1977 club.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025
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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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