come clean

Example Sentences

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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

"HMRC is running a disclosure facility where taxpayers can come clean on undeclared gains and unpaid tax prior to April 2024."

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026

And, well, if I was going to write about others with Parkinson’s disease, I would have to come clean about myself.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Emma is the first from her family to go to university and isn't about to come clean to her proud working class dad about why she's suddenly back.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

Jim was happy for the chance to come clean.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French