tale-telling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tale-telling
Adjective
  • Including this gossipy memoir for the truly obsessive aesthetes.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Waddingham plays gossipy yacht guest Heidi in The Woman in Cabin 10 — but in real life, the actress is focused on being a single mother to her daughter.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The two voluble MCs, who took parallel paths to fame in the Nineties, laugh and swap stories in the dressing room while the cameras are getting positioned a few feet away.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Qerim won a lot of respect, including from ESPN staffers, with her knack for calmly reining in Smith and the voluble personalities debating him.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Jimmy Adams has captained West Indies and been their director of cricket, and is one of the most intelligent and articulate figures in the game.
    Paul Newman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And Keith Siegel, a hostage, himself, for close to 500 days, articulate and healthy, looked beyond the Israeli government for help.
    Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Beyond her work on KPop Demon Hunters, EJAE has also written, vocal-directed, and contributed background vocals for various major K-pop artists.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But as college sports enters yet another year of flirting with institutional funds of all sorts—conversations that have drawn vocal pushback from fans, administrators and trustees—I’ve begun to pay close attention to how those in power talk about these deals.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Some critics have interpreted the ending as a glib last-minute twist that threatens to neutralize the story’s potency and dismisses the seriousness of the movie’s premise.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Widely received as a glib rebuttal to concerns about the rising cost of watching games, the commissioner’s quote will undoubtedly linger in the NBA discourse as a new season begins.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Tale-telling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tale-telling. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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