come clean
Example Sentences
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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
And, well, if I was going to write about others with Parkinson’s disease, I would have to come clean about myself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
However, the prosecution argued that Singh's inaction, along with other pieces of evidence, proved that he had never intended for Khan to come clean.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
She wasn’t the first to come clean like this.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2025
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
