unmask
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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
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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
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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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