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Recent Examples of tell-all
Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
With court cases, exposé docuseries, and tell-all memoirs plaguing the Housewives universe, fans will be watching like a hawk, if a hawk had a Peacock subscription.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
When a publisher approached Deakins about writing a book, thinking of it more as a straightforward autobiography or Hollywood tell-all, Deakins was much more interested in the roadmap of how people get started as storytellers and the usually unusual, winding roads their careers take them on.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
In 2021, Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, sat down for a bombshell, tell-all interview with Winfrey.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025
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There’s been plenty of drama leading up to its release, but sales of the tell-all have been sluggish.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
With court cases, exposé docuseries, and tell-all memoirs plaguing the Housewives universe, fans will be watching like a hawk, if a hawk had a Peacock subscription.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
When a publisher approached Deakins about writing a book, thinking of it more as a straightforward autobiography or Hollywood tell-all, Deakins was much more interested in the roadmap of how people get started as storytellers and the usually unusual, winding roads their careers take them on.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
In 2021, Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, sat down for a bombshell, tell-all interview with Winfrey.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
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At that point, the operator would recite the most intimate details of a patient’s health history to hook her before launching into a few basic screening questions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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The couple tied the knot in an intimate wedding on June 10, 2003, according to an anniversary X post.—
Alexandra Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This chronicle of the Hunkpapa war chief Sitting Bull is told primarily from the perspectives of the Lakotas and the Northern Cheyennes who fought in the Great Sioux War of 1876, in which Army forces battled for control of the Black Hills.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Directed and written by Scott Cooper based on a book by Warren Zanes, the micro-biopic chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 acoustic album Nebraska.—
Robert Lang,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The low rates of the recent past make these homeowners reluctant to sell their properties, depriving the market of inventory.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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In Bug, Carrie Coon's Agnes White — an Oklahoma waitress too exhausted to outrun her past — faces a more persistent threat.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Double islands have been used to add valuable workspace and storage in open kitchens, as well as to accommodate activities such as informal dining.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Jan. 2026
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The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (RMFF) has scouts in different countries monitoring players who are eligible for them from a young age, but Nigeria’s approach is more informal.—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The movie was partially inspired by The Money Player, the autobiography of real-life ping-pong champ Marty Reisman.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Jan. 2026
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Some who had won their freedom, among them Frederick Douglass, wrote powerful autobiographies that were also devastating critiques of slavery.—
Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Idaho has history of laws targeting trans people Over the past several years, the Idaho Legislature and lawmakers across the country have passed a series of bills targeting transgender youth and adults, several of which are now being litigated.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
10 Jan. 2026
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Trump’s words and actions now have observers reaching for the history books.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 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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