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
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
However, Alison Downes, director of pressure group Stop Sizewell C, said ministers had not "come clean" about Sizewell C's cost, because "negotiations with private investors are incomplete".
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025
She wasn’t the first to come clean like this.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2025
She didn’t like it when people did it to her, and she’d learned early on that it was better to come clean and take her punishment than lie and get punished twice.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
