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unmask

[uhn-mask, -mahsk] / ʌnˈmæsk, -ˈmɑsk /


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The Times reporting enraged Trump, and the administration tried to unmask the paper’s sources before ultimately backing down.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

Then he asked Google to unmask three devices.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

"It allows neurodivergent people to unmask and be themselves," Ursie says.

From BBC Feb. 13, 2026

Wiener said he will immediately file his updated bill in order to unmask U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 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 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

The song even unmasks the grim realities of undergoing the procedure.

From Salon Jul. 16, 2022

For parents of young children, the newest vaccine findings are posing unnerving questions at the same time much of the nation unmasks.

From Seattle Times Mar. 11, 2022

So Accident Itself unmasks the likeness of Intent, And ever in blind Chance's darkest crypt The shrine-lamp of God's purposing is found.

From More Songs From Vagabondia by Bliss Carman

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

Vienna police released photos of the two suspects, who were unmasked, captured on security cameras.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Not long before McCarthy’s speech, the purported Russian spy Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury and atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs was unmasked as a Russian spy embedded in the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 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

Despite its being unmasked by the Soviets, Operation Gold secured Harvey's reputation inside the CIA as one of its wiliest and smartest operatives.

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

“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

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

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




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