blow the whistle on
Example Sentences
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It “would safeguard the rights of federal employees who blow the whistle on violations of laws, including by their supervisors,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2025
Combs's former on-and-off girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, was first to blow the whistle on the self-proclaimed "bad boy for life".
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024
Judges are loath to blow the whistle on colleagues and have historically taken the position “Not my chambers, not my business.”
From Slate • Jul. 29, 2024
In June 2012, I collaborated with public-radio reporter Sarah Koenig on an episode of “This American Life” to blow the whistle on Journatic’s shady tactics.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022
“I would have never guessed,” Stockdale would say many years later, “that commodores in charge on the scene of action are sometimes not allowed to blow the whistle on a screwup.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
