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unmask

[uhn-mask, -mahsk] / ʌnˈmæsk, -ˈmɑsk /


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In 2022, a former Twitter worker, Ahmad Abouammo, was found guilty of spying for Saudi officials keen to unmask critics on the platform.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Times reporting enraged Trump, and the administration tried to unmask the paper’s sources before ultimately backing down.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Rarely will you encounter a surefire "tell" that will unmask an AI fake.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Susquehanna has filed a lawsuit seeking to unmask the traders who bet on a drop in Futu and Tiger Brokers stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

In the 1920s, during the Teapot Dome scandal, William had helped unmask the corruption in President Harding’s cabinet.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Meghan Kobza’s “The Masquerade” unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London, where the commercial “middling sort” acquired the numbers and money to emulate the private entertainments of kings and aristocrats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

“But that’s the thing with LADA: It unmasks itself over time.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

The BBC unmasks, for the first time, how the late Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua faked the miracles that drew millions of people to his church.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

Johnson not only unmasks himself in the “Fast X” tag, he matches Momoa’s unhinged energy with a crowd-pleasing ferocity that brings the mood up from an otherwise glum cliffhanger in the film’s final moments.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023

I am still rich in friends, Still loved by Destiny; for in the moment That it unmasks the plotting hypocrite, It sends and proves to me one faithful heart.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke

A morally questionable reporter-turned TV host is the protagonist of Lance Oppenheim's "Primetime", based on the real-life NBC television show "To Catch a Predator" that unmasked paedophiles after luring them to staged meetings with minors.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Vienna police released photos of the two suspects, who were unmasked, captured on security cameras.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

And while several TikTok users have come forward claiming they created it, the true author as of yet remains unmasked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other federal agents unmasked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

Despite its being unmasked by the Soviets, Operation Gold secured Harvey's reputation inside the CIA as one of its wiliest and smartest operatives.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Replimune’s therapy turbo-charges the response to other immunotherapies by unmasking cancer cells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Now he is set on unmasking the caped crusader.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

After federal immigration officers shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, social media users called for the unmasking of the agents responsible.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026

To disrupt that message, West suggests unmasking the obvious fact that the content creators themselves are con artists selling a sham product.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025

To the Crown, the speech revealed the ANC’s true and secret intent, unmasking the ANC’s public pretense of nonviolence.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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