laid bare
Example Sentences
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A number of recent legal proceedings have laid bare the extent to which the Justice companies may have knowingly violated environmental laws, a key threshold for bringing a criminal matter.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
She described what the ATF had accomplished in recent years, then she laid bare the extent of the pullback now underway.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Two weeks of testimony from a cast of characters including Musk, Altman and OpenAI’s co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever laid bare a lot of the company’s dysfunction.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
The Portuguese began with a draw at Everton, but three consecutive losses to Arsenal, Brentford and Leeds soon after laid bare the scale of the task at hand.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
For some time they had been cut off from the world, as if in an invisible island; now they were laid bare again, peril had returned.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
