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
Emma is the first from her family to go to university and isn't about to come clean to her proud working class dad about why she's suddenly back.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
She wasn’t the first to come clean like this.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2025
To Corby’s credit, he ultimately opts to come clean in the name of accountability.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025
They both want me to come clean, to tell my parents I found the box, to be honest with them about how Tm feeling.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
