exposé
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Whereas the European gothic, he concludes, was “an enlightened attack on a debased ruling class or entrenched superstition,” its American version emerged as “a Calvinist exposé of natural human corruption.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The Atlantic’s recent exposé of Kash Patel is full of alarming allegations.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
What this exposé casts a light upon is a much less visible element.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
It’s this exposé of societal absurdity and Meursault’s atheistic refusal to play along with pacifying notions of sin and redemption, that makes“The Stranger” a pinnacle of confrontational literature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
The story ran across the country, “Kate Fox Jencken … intends to co-operate with her sister—Margaretta Fox Kane—in her proposed exposé of the fraudulent methods of so-called spiritualism.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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By throwing a naive character into this environment, what were you aiming to expose about the difference between posturing around these subcultures and the lived reality of them?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
To speak of trauma is not only to recount an event; it is also to expose fear, helplessness, and loss of control.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
The cycle has repeated: an exam goes wrong, students protest, a committee is appointed and reforms are proposed - only for another crisis to expose the same weaknesses.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Skeptics worry it could expose less-experienced investors to new dangers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The dirty snow was pockmarked from the warm rain, and melting in patches to expose the slimy, yellowed grass beneath it; icicles cracked and plunged like daggers from the sharp peaks of the roofs.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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This also exposes the bearish case, which investors should not ignore.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Exposing cells directly to a chemical can reveal a potential hazard, but it does not, by itself, show whether eating a food exposes human tissues to enough of that chemical to cause the same damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Mr. Rasmussen makes Douglass’s conversion vivid and persuasive; Mr. Rebeiro exposes its jurisprudential machinery with impressive precision, even when that machinery clanks a little.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The exercise exposes “tremendous possibilities for misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, distortion,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Suppose a citizen leaks information that exposes government wrongdoing, but breaks the law in doing so.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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Instead of simply falling on the football, Bailey ran in circles and left it exposed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Anyone who rode the same train or bus as the individual, or was at the same station on the same day, may have been exposed to measles, according to the statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Wise alleged that the insurers exposed policyholders to outsized losses through high-risk investments, including collapsed Miami investment firm 777 Partners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“I’m a first-gen Mexican American woman and I was supposed to live at home until I get married,” she explains; but it also exposed her to the concept of impostor syndrome.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The spirit trend didn’t dissolve overnight, but skeptics had now exposed fraud often enough that belief among the general public was fading fast.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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His mission — exposing the hidden lives around us — never changed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
They may have sought to avoid exposing or reopening painful memories.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
The press makes mistakes, but its public role in exposing shady behavior is essential.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Many traditional axion experiments try to convert axions into photons by exposing them to extremely strong magnetic fields inside laboratories.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
At last, technicians reached the Soviet cables, carefully exposing the inner wires and grafting on the wiretaps.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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