come clean

Example Sentences

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"The prime minister's chief of staff is someone who has access to a lot of information," she said, urging the government to "come clean about what happened".

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

We will come clean with our own views on these races: Whatever, man.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026

“I’d come clean with the voters about where we are fiscally.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026

His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

I said, “Yes, sir. But isn’t it just like my luck to come clean across the state to find my daddy and he turns out to be a mean old coot?”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis