blow the whistle on
Example Sentences
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Under Greenspan’s watch, the Fed didn’t blow the whistle on riskier lending practices in which Wall Street used financial alchemy to turn dodgy mortgages into highly rated securities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
They urged him to appeal, to blow the whistle on the whole plot.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
It “would safeguard the rights of federal employees who blow the whistle on violations of laws, including by their supervisors,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2025
Judges are loath to blow the whistle on colleagues and have historically taken the position “Not my chambers, not my business.”
From Slate • Jul. 29, 2024
“I would have never guessed,” Stockdale would say many years later, “that commodores in charge on the scene of action are sometimes not allowed to blow the whistle on a screwup.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
