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
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
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
I wanted nothing more than to come clean with her.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
