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noun

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Recent Examples of tell-all
Noun
Prince Harry ‘has an uncertain future’ after tell-alls: royal expert True Royalty TV co-founder Nick Bullen tells Fox News Digital that after a sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, a six-part Netflix docuseries and a memoir, the Duke of Sussex needs to focus on his future. Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025 As shown on the series, her mother did a tell-all interview with Women's Weekly in 2015, telling her side of the story and pleading with her daughter to tell the truth about her childhood as well as her scams. Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025 Officially, the Black Chamber didn’t exist until 1931, when its founder, Yardley—bitter after an abrupt dismissal—decided to expose it to the world in a tell-all book titled The American Black Chamber. Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025 Super agent Jason Weinberg, who also represents Dakota Johnson, is shepherding the tell-all through the auction process. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tell-all
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
  • Such intimate settings and a new creative focus may offer a reprieve from the pressures of global exposure online.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The Spanish native uploaded an Instagram video of their intimate performance, showing Smith and Martinez locked in a moment of heated passion.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Diplomat — which premiered in April 2023 — chronicles Kate, the U.S. ambassador to the U.K., attempting to prevent another world war after a British aircraft carrier was bombed.
    Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
  • When tragedy strikes, the film shifts into a chronicle of endurance, of solitude and grief.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Tom Hollander stars as Truman Capote, who manages to scandalize the entire Manhattan social scene by writing a viciously gossipy novel about them.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The four movies do not feel like traditional Oscar favorites, though A Complete Unknown (a music biopic about Bob Dylan) and Conclave (a gossipy drama about the selection of a new pope) come closest.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Few cultures have left a deeper mark on history, and while Egypt remains the ultimate place to explore its past, London’s British Museum offers a rare chance to step into antiquity with one of the world’s most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian artefacts outside Egypt.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • If past is prologue, some clues about how Trump might approach this routine task of the presidency may be found in Trump's State of the Union address from 2020.
    Tamara Keith, NPR, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Not in a classroom with a lecture but sitting on your couch with your family, eating some popcorn, getting this informal education, and hopefully planting a seed that, hey, Black women do this type of science.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, many women around the world are still struggling to find work, with many holding precarious jobs or forced to hustle in the informal economy just to get by.
    Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The stories that are perhaps written in a mode that might be more akin to autofiction have to find their own way to be free of the constraints of my autobiography.
    Michael Schaub, Orange County Register, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Moore had previously shared her story through an autobiography and a successful podcast.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The partnership started in 2024, focusing on creating exclusive trading cards and memorabilia that highlight the team's successful history in the sport.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Those aging Steam Decks might not be powerful enough to run a game like Half-Life 3 at maximum graphics settings, but Valve games have a history of scaling down well on low-end systems.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 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 13 Mar. 2025.

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