come clean
Example Sentences
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Booth said England should have come clean much sooner about an incident involving white-ball captain Harry Brook on the tour of New Zealand that preceded the Ashes.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 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
"HMRC is running a disclosure facility where taxpayers can come clean on undeclared gains and unpaid tax prior to April 2024."
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026
Unfortunately, whether or not I’m ready to come clean about my double life is officially irrelevant.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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