laid bare
Example Sentences
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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
England's aversion for acceleration was laid bare in the third Ashes T20 last year.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 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
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
I thought of Hamlet's anatomy book that showed a skeleton laid bare beneath the skin, a grim reminder of waiting Death.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
