come clean

Example Sentences

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We will come clean with our own views on these races: Whatever, man.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026

An altercation with a nightclub bouncer in Wellington, a wasteful Ashes performance and a foolish attempt to hide the truth, for which he later had to come clean.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 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

When Ms Lloyd and Miss Winstanley later heard the society was going to begin accepting female magicians as members, they decided to come clean about their deception and approached the press.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025

Charles, for his part, also wanted to come clean.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman