laid bare
Example Sentences
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Emotions explode as secrets are laid bare - and in a dramatic rollercoaster, the plot spirals back over five years to explain their relationships and toxic family dynamics.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
It was more like a dark epiphany, a moment of revelation in which unsavory but unavoidable truths about America were laid bare before America itself and the wider world.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
However, once it had been dispersed by the strong gusts whipping in off the Atlantic Ocean, the true nature of the challenge ahead was laid bare.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Ukraine “really laid bare how fragile and how sclerotic the defense industrial base had become,” Mr. Kreitz says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Was this what it felt like to be exposed, for all of her private thoughts to be laid bare in front of the one person who she had wanted to be perfect for?
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
