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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
  • Going forward, that space will now be opened up to the many thousands of reporters who have been barred from covering these intimate areas of the administration.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Blow Job, Sleep, Empire: with help from the Jonas Mekas propaganda wheel, these shifted the definition of beauty in the popular US lexicon: a filmed beauty, a gay beauty, a beauty of an intimate boredom.
    Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • If Part 1 shows us the death of honor, Part 2 chronicles the dwindling and, ultimately, the brutal snuffing out of Sir John’s seemingly unquenchable flame.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
  • His memoir ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ chronicles how resilience propelled his survival and ethical development in the camps.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 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
  • Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago’s past.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Her informal show-and-tell presentation came at a time when Super Bowl tickets had ballooned past $100 per seat.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Zoom in: The question of whether to form a formal Jewish Caucus has been a point of contention for years among Jewish lawmakers, who have often met as an informal Jewish members' working group.
    Andrew Solender, Axios, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Gates channeled that reflective mood into Source Code: My Beginnings, the first installment of a two-part autobiography.
    Scott Detrow, NPR, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The two rappers had subsequent, violent run-ins over the years, as Jackson recalled in his autobiography From Pieces To Weight, at nightclubs and once at the Hit Factory recording studio.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 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 22 Feb. 2025.

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