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noun

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Recent Examples of tell-all
Noun
Specifically, Meghan told Oprah Winfrey in her March 2021 tell-all interview that there were conversations behind closed doors about denying her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, royal titles and police protection. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025 The tell-all episode of 90 Day Fiancé: The Last Resort airs on March 31 at 8 p.m. ET on TLC, with the complete season available on Discovery+ for streaming. Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 31 Mar. 2025 After Jenna’s White House walk of shame story made Henry blush on Thursday, the couple participated in a tell-all lie detector test during the Friday, March 28 episode. Rachel McRady, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025 In September 2024, Welch spoke with PEOPLE exclusively for a tell-all interview about her untraditional rise to internet stardom, which unexpectedly solidified her name in the pop culture conversation for months to come. Skyler Caruso, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tell-all
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
  • Maddox found relief through photography and writing, including Motherhood: The Thread That Holds Us Together, a portrait study capturing the raw, vulnerable, and intimate moments of the motherhood journey that aren’t often seen, to combat isolation.
    Essence, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The shows are produced by both Audible and Together, a new company that Jackman and producer Sonia Friedman launched to create intimate and accessible live theater.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Its first season chronicles one exceptionally grueling 15-hour shift inside an emergency room at a fictional hospital in Pittsburgh, told one hour at a time, in real time.
    Jeremy D. Larson, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2025
  • House of the Dragon chronicles the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragon, an event that didn’t just happen overnight.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But the debates over the more gossipy anecdotes obscure the larger trends that surface through the book.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Pope Gregory, believing these demons to be an indication of Magdalene’s excessively sinful past, identified her as an unnamed woman in Luke who wipes Jesus’ feet with her hair.
    Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The truth is that many Turks, even secular ones, have a certain affection for their country’s imperial past, when Turks were feared invaders rather than migrants searching for industrial jobs.
    Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • When the executive order goes into effect, de minimis packages from China will be subject to an informal entry process, and each package that travels to the U.S. via international post will now be subject to a tariff rate of 120 percent or $100, a rate that will increase to $200 after June 1.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • What exactly are the rules for saving seats at an informal event where seats are not assigned? Related Articles Miss Manners: Heroes?
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The rights to her 2008 autobiography, Society’s Child, recently reverted to Ian.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2025
  • When he was eventually talked into writing an autobiography by a journalist friend, Campbell had three goals.
    David Chiu, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Mavericks became the 11th team in NBA history to reach the NBA Finals one season, and miss the playoffs the next.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2025
  • At the time of his death, Carter was the longest living president in American history.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 19 Apr. 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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