Document
Tell
Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.
Common collocations
| people | document people | tell people |
| time | document time | tell time |
| story | document story | tell story |
| tale | document tale | tell tale |
| Other words: information. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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You've got an important document you need signed, but the mark will refuse if you tell them what it is.
Source: Tricked Into Signing -
His father, an indie game developer, decides to document his family's experience with raising a dying child in an autobiographical exploration game titled That Dragon, Cancer, named for a bedtime story about Joel that he and his wife would tell their children.
Source: Film / Thank You For Playng -
Conveniently Interrupted Document: Marnie's diary has the pages about her silo adventure ripped out so that it wouldn't tell Anna (and the audience) what's gonna happen next.
Source: Anime / When Marnie Was There
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Tell and Document. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/document/tell
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Tell or Document. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/document/tell.
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