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Recent Examples of tell-all
Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026
Trump's first-term Justice Department sued Wolkoff over the tell-all memoir, but the lawsuit was dropped in 2021.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
At the top of this year’s list is the erotic thriller Best Seller from writer Matisse Haddad about a struggling writer, married to a famous novelist husband, who writes a viral tell-all that ignites a battle between the two.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Dec. 2025
There’s been plenty of drama leading up to its release, but sales of the tell-all have been sluggish.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Rinna is clear that this isn’t a Housewives tell-all.
—Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026
Trump's first-term Justice Department sued Wolkoff over the tell-all memoir, but the lawsuit was dropped in 2021.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
At the top of this year’s list is the erotic thriller Best Seller from writer Matisse Haddad about a struggling writer, married to a famous novelist husband, who writes a viral tell-all that ignites a battle between the two.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Dec. 2025
There’s been plenty of drama leading up to its release, but sales of the tell-all have been sluggish.
—Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all
Adjective
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Austin is offering everything from la Madeleine’s chocolate-strawberry bakery boards to Azul’s candlelit rooftop cabanas, including intimate prix-fixe dinners and playful donut boat adventures.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Feb. 2026
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Creating a more romantic atmosphere at home can transform your space into a cozy, intimate retreat.—
Kate Donovan,
Martha Stewart,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.—
Leah Downey,
The New York Review of Books,
7 Feb. 2026
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Netflix also dropped a chronicle of Australian snowboarder Scotty James in December.—
Sara Germano,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Whether set in Jewish eastern Europe or New York’s Lower East Side, Shtok’s range is on full display, from gossipy melodramas and elegiac reveries to coming of age portraits of shtetl adolescents and immigrant hustlers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Certainly the humdrum of legislation or bureaucratic rule-marking is nothing like the gossipy speculation about who may or may not bid to lead California as its 41st governor.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That’s a far cry from the engines of NASCAR’s past, which produced more than 900 hp and made the Cup Series’ screaming cars stand out as unique.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Nyla Brooks scored 21 points, Nyla Harris added 19 and North Carolina rolled past Wake Forest.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Anyone who survived the informal audition went on to meet judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie, and Carrie Underwood.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Feb. 2026
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Unlike the specialized literary magazine and its informal cousin, the literary blog, the general-interest newspaper has a kind of noble rapacity, an encyclopedic ambition to wrap its arms around the whole of the world.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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After Fuller’s death in 1997, Lang set out to have his autobiography, A Third Face, posthumously edited and published.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2026
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So are the director and her sister, but this is not an autobiography.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Stonewall Monument is the only site within the national park system dedicated to LGBTQ+ history, which makes its preservation all the more meaningful to activists and historians.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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Maegan Ortiz, executive director of the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California, or IDEPSCA, cited the LAPD’s history of using excessive force against civilians and said that in the recent immigration raids, officers have sometimes inflamed instead of defused tensions.—
Melissa Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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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
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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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