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noun

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Noun
And though the show positions itself as a tell-all, Guinness beer itself gets through without much of a stain. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025 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 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 See All Example Sentences for tell-all
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
  • Eleven men and women died in intimate partner homicides in 2024, nearly double the number killed the previous year, according to the annual Fatality Review Report for Tarrant County.
    Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Through intimate interviews with players, coaches, parents, journalists and opponents, director Kevin Shaw probes media bias, racial stereotypes, community pride and the ethical complexities of youth sports—showing how a moment meant to celebrate young athletes became a lasting stigma.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The book chronicles Soare’s rise to prominence in the beauty world and building her billion-dollar business.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Directed by Scott Cooper and released through 20th Century Studios, the biopic chronicles the making of Springsteen’s Nebraska, and served as the opening film at AFI Fest in Hollywood on Wednesday.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Including this gossipy memoir for the truly obsessive aesthetes.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Waddingham plays gossipy yacht guest Heidi in The Woman in Cabin 10 — but in real life, the actress is focused on being a single mother to her daughter.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As a result, many legends are connected to its violent past, and its dungeon, in particular, is said to be haunted by tortured souls.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Even as Altman pitches a science-fictional future, his company is chained to products and business models from the recent technological past.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The weight of running this informal refugee network shows.
    Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Some ends up in informal scrapyards, where workers burn or dismantle devices by hand, often without protection, releasing toxic fumes and scrap.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The film is an autobiography of loss; the film is a history of now.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The singer even gave him the first pages of his unfinished autobiography.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Haney argued that Rinderknecht has no history of mental health issues or drug use and has no prior criminal record.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • My history and the lessons learned My record of immediately reversing transfers is historically bad, with this season no exception!
    Holly Shand, New York Times, 23 Oct. 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 27 Oct. 2025.

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