come clean

Example Sentences

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"The prime minister's chief of staff is someone who has access to a lot of information," she said, urging the government to "come clean about what happened".

From BBC • Mar. 26, 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

"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

You had your chance to come clean when Barrone interviewed you the day of the attack.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin