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Recent Examples of tell-all
Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2025
Now Netflix has revealed the first trailer (below) for a tell-all documentary about the actor’s collapse featuring interviews with Sheen and many of his family and friends.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
But the opening of Episode 9 is just as energized, in its way, following Ward McAllister’s (Nathan Lane) society tell-all as the book passes from house to house.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2025
Not to be outdone, B-list actress Betty Ting Pei—Lee’s alleged mistress—played herself in the salacious film Bruce Lee and I, billed as a tell-all about Lee’s sex- and drug-fueled last days.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 8 Aug. 2025
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John Bolton, former national security adviser Bolton has long been a target of Trump's ire since leaving his first administration and publishing a tell-all book.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2025
Now Netflix has revealed the first trailer (below) for a tell-all documentary about the actor’s collapse featuring interviews with Sheen and many of his family and friends.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
But the opening of Episode 9 is just as energized, in its way, following Ward McAllister’s (Nathan Lane) society tell-all as the book passes from house to house.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2025
Not to be outdone, B-list actress Betty Ting Pei—Lee’s alleged mistress—played herself in the salacious film Bruce Lee and I, billed as a tell-all about Lee’s sex- and drug-fueled last days.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
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Unlike other ultra-luxury brands that were reconstituted in the past few decades under new ownership, Maybach has intimate century-long ties with its mother, Mercedes-Benz.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Boston and its environs are a treasure trove of intimate spaces and sweeping views, dreamy restaurants and enchanting balconies.—
Gretta Monahan,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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News reports chronicle backlash against a MSNBC analyst, a Middle Tennessee State University assistant dean of students, a University of Mississippi employee and a communications coordinator for the Carolina Panthers.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The five-part docuseries chronicles the long and complex story of the human species.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But compared to all the gossipy bits in The Age of Innocence or The Custom of the Country, this novel is dry like toast.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Starring Parker alongside Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon as a quartet of gossipy New York City friends, the show garnered over fifty Primetime Emmy Nominations across its six seasons.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
17 Aug. 2025
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Lellouche stars as unlikely hero Zem, a disillusioned Zone 3 cop with an idealistic militant past, who is teamed with haughty, high-flying Zone 2 officer Salia, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos, after a leading politician is assassinated in Zone 1.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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From the outside, Laura could be loving, protective, overbearing, even intrusive — while Cherry sows doubt for hiding pieces of her past despite ostensibly adoring her new beau.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Protesters signaled their support for Karki through an informal vote on the messaging app Discord.—
Sugam Pokharel,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Bolsonaro's presidency was marked by intense skepticism about the pandemic and vaccines and his embrace of informal mining and land-clearing for cattle grazing, pushing deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest to record highs.—
Ricardo Brito,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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In addition to her work with publications like BBC's Good Food and The Times Magazine, Hussain is the prolific author of 10 cookbooks, four children's books, three fiction books, and a 2019 autobiography, Finding My Voice.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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In her autobiography, Gibson wrote about biding her time rather than choosing to agitate.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The barebones campaign website of Brad Gaines touts his history as a football player in high school and at Vanderbilt University.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Doctors struggle to access complete patient histories, researchers spend months cleaning inconsistent datasets, and hospitals face spiraling costs just to keep outdated systems running.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 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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“Tell-all.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tell-all. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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