laid bare
Example Sentences
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More than a million pilgrims have poured into Saudi Arabia from across the world for the annual Hajj in Mecca, braving a war that has laid bare the Middle East’s modern fault lines.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
It also laid bare new details of its operations, as well as elements of Altman and Brockman’s entanglements.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
The trial has laid bare the internal strife within a circle of elite Silicon Valley engineers, investors and executives in the years leading up to the high-profile launch of the ChatGPT chatbot in 2022.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Without current data, millions of urban migrants - often in informal jobs and housing - remain poorly captured in policy design, a gap laid bare during the pandemic.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
For some time they had been cut off from the world, as if in an invisible island; now they were laid bare again, peril had returned.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
