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Recent Examples of tell-all
Noun
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 His trial — the first to be televised from start to finish — unleashed a frenzy of tell-all books, interviews and 24/7 press coverage that forever changed how the media covers crime. Emily Blackwood, People.com, 31 Jan. 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
  • On the margins of the story, there is a group of gossipy women who gather to knit and act as a comedic Greek chorus.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Franklin Roosevelt found comfort in his nightly cocktail rituals, which were a gossipy affair punctuated by funny stories.
    John Baldoni, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The answer may determine whether supersonic travel remains a nostalgic memory of aviation’s past — or finally becomes part of its future. 📬 Sign up for the Daily Brief Our free, fast, and fun briefing on the global economy, delivered every weekday morning.
    Jackie Snow, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Can Greg, a murderer by proxy whose past likely holds other dark secrets, escape what the recording Sarah Catherine Hook’s Piper listens to, also in the premiere, describes as the prison of identity?
    Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Many fundamental aspects of teamwork—such as spontaneous collaboration, real-time feedback and informal bonding—are harder to cultivate in a virtual environment.
    Daria Rudnik, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Sorry to break it to you, but the tampering that happens is not informal.
    Cory Lavalette, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Ethel lamented her family name in her 1955 autobiography, Memories.
    Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Feb. 2025
  • In 2015, Buckler published his autobiography That’s Entertainment: My Life in the Jam.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For the first time in its more than 50-year history, Southwest Airlines is facing significant layoffs.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
  • According to Weinstein's lawsuit, the film producer's brother and business partners had a history of misusing company funds, including the 2016 loan from AI International.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 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 2 Mar. 2025.

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