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noun

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Recent Examples of tell-all
Noun
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 By Charlie Warzel Perhaps the biggest surprise of Careless People, the new tell-all memoir by the former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, is that a book chronicling the social network’s missteps and moral bankruptcy can still make news in 2025. Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025 Apparently that ethos goes only so far, because Zuckerberg’s company, now called Meta, is taking extreme measures to quash a corporate tell-all by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former global public policy director at Facebook. Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025 Macmillan Publishers and its imprint Flatiron Books are standing behind the tell-all, which is now the New York Times number one bestseller. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tell-all
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
  • This novel is an intimate exploration into the impact of identity on ourselves, the true meaning of legacy and resentment and forgiveness between families.
    Angie Thomas, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The new releases arrive amid a fresh wave of activity for the duo, who kicked off their anniversary run in 2023 with a handful of intimate live shows, performing Moon Safari in full for the first time.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • While the film refers to the name of the classic 1960s rock band, The Doors is largely a chronicle of Morrison’s life and career before his death at age 27 in July of 1971.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The critical hit chronicles the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics from the perspective of the ABC Sports television crew.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Apr. 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
  • In public, President Trump is blunt, salty, mean, flattering and gossipy.
    Alex Isenstadt, Axios, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The actor, who portrayed Rick, a man searching for answers about his father’s mysterious past at a luxury resort in Thailand, opened up about the shocking finale that no one saw coming.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The students’ work in the Jewish cemetery risks rousing this grim past, and most Darkenbloom residents want no part of such investigations.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Bloomberg has gone so far as to report that Zaslav is in early, informal talks regarding potential successors.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The expectation has always been that the president would behave in a certain way, abiding by a generations-long yet informal agreement about the role and discretion of the administrative state.
    Jay Cost, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 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
  • This reframing has the potential to catalyze one of the most significant capital redeployments in modern U.S. history.
    Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • President's own vice president last term, Mike Pence, said this is the largest peace time tax hike in us history.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 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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“Tell-all.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tell-all. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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