unmask
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Then he asked Google to unmask three devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
They want DHS employees, namely ICE and Customs and Border Protection officers, to unmask and wear clear and visible identification.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
AFP found dozens of posts across social media, in which users shared AI-generated images purporting to "unmask" the agent who shot her.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
At the end of Friday's episode, the traitors had been given the opportunity to unmask the secret traitor if they completed a clandestine task.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
In the 1920s, during the Teapot Dome scandal, William had helped unmask the corruption in President Harding’s cabinet.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Meghan Kobza’s “The Masquerade” unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London, where the commercial “middling sort” acquired the numbers and money to emulate the private entertainments of kings and aristocrats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The vaccine acts like a ‘wanted poster’ which unmasks cancer cells which are adept at hiding in the body, only to resurface later.
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
“But that’s the thing with LADA: It unmasks itself over time.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
The song even unmasks the grim realities of undergoing the procedure.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022
With unsparing hand she unmasks the human heart and unveils the most carefully hidden mysteries of femininity, and every one who reads these letters will see herself depicted as in a mirror.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell
A leading people smuggler, whose network is believed to be responsible for the majority of illegal cross-Channel journeys in recent years, has been unmasked by a BBC investigation.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
And while several TikTok users have come forward claiming they created it, the true author as of yet remains unmasked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Whether the medication caused it, accelerated a subclinical condition, or simply unmasked something already there is nearly impossible to determine.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026
Isaiah Hodgson was outed as a Border Patrol agent last June after he was filmed, unmasked, taking part in the conroversial arrest of Adrian Martinez, a U.S. citizen accused of interfering with immigration enforcement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
He was wearing the Nanuak unmasked on his chest.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Reckzeh was a doctor at Berlin’s Charité hospital who posed as an anti-Nazi but was all too eager to play his part in the unmasking of the participants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
The series takes in a wide range of topics, from unmasking Jack the Ripper, to the day The Beatles came to Hull.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Littlejohn’s unmasking of grotesque tax inequality, by contrast, was an attempt to make the U.S. more democratic, at considerable risk to himself.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2024
The 26-year-old podcast host, best known for USA Network’s “Chrisley Knows Best,” admitted during her unmasking on Wednesday’s episode, “I know singing is not for me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
To the Crown, the speech revealed the ANC’s true and secret intent, unmasking the ANC’s public pretense of nonviolence.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
