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Recent Examples of tell-all
/ Cbs News, CBS News, 25 May 2025
Barry Diller has one request before settling in on his living room sofa for a two-and-a-half-hour interview about the juicy revelations in his new tell-all memoir, Who Knew.
—Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
Hulu gave a hint that’s promising for the series’ first tell-all episode.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 20 May 2025
There’s also a frank talk with her 100-year-old former publicity man, Rusty Strait, who later wrote a tell-all book about Jayne (Hargitay scolds him for sharing private stories), and a very poignant interview with Ellen Hargitay, her stepmother who married Mickey short after Jayne’s death.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 May 2025
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The idea was familiar: sponsor the wildly risky adventure, find someone physically attractive and willing to imperil their own life, sign them to an exclusive tell-all deal, publicize the thing to the max, and make a fortune on book sales.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 25 May 2025
Barry Diller has one request before settling in on his living room sofa for a two-and-a-half-hour interview about the juicy revelations in his new tell-all memoir, Who Knew.
—Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
Hulu gave a hint that’s promising for the series’ first tell-all episode.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 20 May 2025
There’s also a frank talk with her 100-year-old former publicity man, Rusty Strait, who later wrote a tell-all book about Jayne (Hargitay scolds him for sharing private stories), and a very poignant interview with Ellen Hargitay, her stepmother who married Mickey short after Jayne’s death.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
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Meals are a great time to set boundaries in place and enjoy intimate conversations.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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The writers seemingly wanted to make a more intimate, heist-style crime drama without figuring out why or how Riri would fit into it.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
26 June 2025
Noun
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In Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker, Zachary Leader—who has written engaging lives of Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow—has cobbled together a curious two-part chronicle.—
Eric Bulson,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2025
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That is one way to see history–as nothing but an unvarnished chronicle of what happened.—
James T. Kloppenberg,
Time,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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The middle class Maitri lives in a gossipy building complex with her mother Shobha (Geeta Agrawal).—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 June 2025
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The participants are not just revealing this to strangers who make up the bulk of the show’s viewership, but also, by default, to potentially gossipy friends, neighbors, colleagues and professional acquaintances.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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Interestingly, two of the books on this list take place in the (semi) recent past, albeit alternate timelines: 2018 and 1998.—
Natalie Zutter
June 30,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2025
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Discovering the Danger from Outer Space Around 200 years ago, in the 1830s, geologists began to study fossils and figure out that several mass extinctions had wiped out whole ecosystems of species on Earth in the distant past.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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The partnership was a crash course for them both: an informal academy with a class roster of two.—
Josh Rottenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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Chris Jackson/Getty Images At one stage, the king had hoped for a more informal meeting in Scotland, where the royals spend their summer holiday.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
Noun
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There was one or two that were done by ABC News Talent around the promotion of her autobiography, Audition.—
Alex Jhamb Burns,
Vogue,
23 June 2025
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His autobiography, Model Citizen: The Autobiography of Jeremy Meeks, was released in February 2024.—
Nicole Briese,
People.com,
18 June 2025
Noun
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That late start didn’t stop him from becoming the most accomplished and influential trainer in the history of North American horse racing.—
Neil Milbert,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
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White wasn’t happy with Pimblett getting in the ring, knowing the history of bad blood between the two.—
W.G. Ramirez,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 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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