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
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
To Corby’s credit, he ultimately opts to come clean in the name of accountability.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025
Philp told MPs the government needed to "come clean and tell the truth".
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024
Any other time I would have been too embarrassed to tell him the truth, but I was so sick of lying that I had an urge to come clean, on this small matter at least.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
