unmask
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In 2022, after Nivie Kaul lost more than $8 million in a cryptocurrency scam, she embarked on a quest to unmask the criminals and get the money back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Times reporting enraged Trump, and the administration tried to unmask the paper’s sources before ultimately backing down.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
She sat down with the BBC's Women's Football Weekly podcast and addressed media in a press conference that helped unmask the global superstar.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
“We will unmask these thugs and hold them accountable. Full stop,” Wiener said, calling Snyder’s ruling a “huge win.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
Whoever did this had wanted only to unmask me without my permission, to humiliate me by intentionally undermining a decision I’d made to keep some parts of me for just myself.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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
“But that’s the thing with LADA: It unmasks itself over time.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
The BBC unmasks, for the first time, how the late Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua faked the miracles that drew millions of people to his church.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
“If everyone in your backyard gathering stands up and unmasks to crowd around the snack table for half an hour, that will increase the risk of that activity,” Ferrer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Not such is Ithuriel’s magic spear, the very touch of which unmasks falsehood.
From Sermons for the Times by Charles Kingsley
A morally questionable reporter-turned TV host is the protagonist of Lance Oppenheim's "Primetime", based on the real-life NBC television show "To Catch a Predator" that unmasked paedophiles after luring them to staged meetings with minors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Then on Wednesday, nearly a week after Hugging Face raised the alarm, the true culprit was unmasked.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The student body collectively sighed “Alas, this too,” but then mobbed the dorms anyway, cheering and hugging fearlessly with unmasked smiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 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
She had been unmasked as a CIA operative, thereby rendering her useless as an undercover agent in the Soviet Union.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Now he is set on unmasking the caped crusader.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
To disrupt that message, West suggests unmasking the obvious fact that the content creators themselves are con artists selling a sham product.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
“Mask & Bone” by Jamesie Fournier is a slightly overwritten but otherwise masterly unmasking of ordinary family life that reveals ancient secrets and generational trauma of the supernatural kind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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
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
