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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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For a more intimate experience, consider reserving one of five rooms inside The Hibiscus House.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
20 July 2025
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Getty Images Astronomer announced on Saturday that CEO Andy Byron has resigned days after being caught on video in an intimate moment with the company’s head of human resources at a Coldplay concert.—
Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
19 July 2025
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Coddling Russia and refusing to grant Ukraine its own importance, out of deference to the fact that one was a great power and former superpower while the other was destined to live or die in its shadow, scripted a chronicle of a catastrophe foretold.—
Samuel Moyn,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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His latest is a departure: a chronicle of his unlikely stint playing semi-pro football in Brenham, Texas, in his sixties.—
Michael Schaub,
Oc Register,
15 July 2025
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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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The environment of present-day Alberta is radically different from its Cretaceous Era past.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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Too informal with answers and language The team acknowledges that Gen Z’s use of slang is one of their defining traits.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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As Home Depot spread across America beginning in the 1980s, an informal economy of day laborers looking for work, mostly from Mexico and South America, grew around the company’s sprawling parking lots in cities and suburbs with large immigrant populations.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
18 July 2025
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Throughout her astutely observed and utterly captivating autobiography, which was originally published in 1983, Blouin charts her harrowing youth and extensive engagement with various African leaders and independence movements during the mid-20th century.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
8 July 2025
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The designer published his autobiography, continued to lecture about fashion.—
Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
7 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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