come clean
Example Sentences
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Booth said England should have come clean much sooner about an incident involving white-ball captain Harry Brook on the tour of New Zealand that preceded the Ashes.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
“I’d come clean with the voters about where we are fiscally.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
However, the prosecution argued that Singh's inaction, along with other pieces of evidence, proved that he had never intended for Khan to come clean.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
Maybe I should just come clean, but then Jackson would take over and we’d end up back at camp.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
