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noun

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Recent Examples of tell-all
Noun
So was Michael Gross, whose new tell-all will be about St. Barts and the stars and billionaires who frequent its beaches. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 4 May 2025 The tension between the estranged spouses was palpable during the tell-all. Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 31 Mar. 2025 Since then, it's evolved into a show known for its tell-all interviews with Hollywood's A-lister guests, which have included Miley Cyrus, Chelsea Handler, John Mayer and Kelsea Ballerini. Skyler Caruso, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025 Employees and intimates wrote tell-all books, stole memorabilia and blackmailed her. Paul Liberatore, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tell-all
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
  • Her mom has trouble with intimate relationships and is sort of like a boy crazy mom, and Taylor's the one that's seeing the manifestation of that, and essentially comforting her mother and trying to help her.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 May 2025
  • Her testimony offered the jury context about how abuse can form and continue in intimate partner relationships, for jurors to compare the information to the circumstances being presented to them.
    Elizabeth Rosner, People.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • This five-part series will be the all-encompassing, quintessential chronicle of this team and its seven Hall of Fame players.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 May 2025
  • And once the band is established, the chronicle of everything that’s gone on among them stops being the nexus of the show.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • In a world of algorithm game-playing and lyrics bundled with gossipy subtext, the band’s songs — which deftly blend garage rock and shoegaze — function as talismans affirming the importance of standing tall by your convictions.
    Sophie Williams, Billboard, 1 May 2025
  • There’s plenty of drama to go around — especially once gossipy talk show hosts, cruel vloggers and even campy drag queens join in on the action to tear its titular drama queens to shreds.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Simone and Ethan's relationship continues on rocky footing when her traumatic past is revisited, including her experience in foster care after the death of her mother, the subsequent unraveling of her father’s mental state and her fraught relationship with him.
    Francesca Gariano, People.com, 24 May 2025
  • Her world shifts when Iho, a painter with his own mysterious past, arrives and rekindles something within her.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Though there was no official vote, an informal vote revealed the teams were split 16-16 on the matter, according to an individual in the room during deliberations.
    Tess DeMeyer, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Employees who join a startup often thrive in fast-moving, informal environments, so when the company begins to scale, there’s often a fear of losing that agility.
    Lyuba Brouillard, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Her hardscrabble upbringing in Kentucky, immortalized in her autobiography and its film version (starring Sissy Spacek as Lynn in an Oscar-winning role), seemed to drive her unapologetic approach to music.
    Lindsay Kusiak, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
  • After years of denying the allegations, Rose finally admitted to betting on baseball teams, including his own, in his 2004 autobiography, Pete Rose: My Story.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The 2025 Northwest Arkansas Community College Graduation Commencement took place May 14 at the Walmart AMP in Rogers and 419 graduates walked the stage -- the most in the college's 35-year history.
    Carin Schoppmeyer, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2025
  • As symbols of Floyd’s place in history have faded, so too have hopes for federal police reform, commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion and American optimism about the future of racial justice.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 25 May 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 30 May. 2025.

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