laid bare
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The U.S. criticism has laid bare Oman’s lack of access to American power circles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
She described what the ATF had accomplished in recent years, then she laid bare the extent of the pullback now underway.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Their inability to hit sixes was laid bare in Chelmsford on Thursday and for the first 18 overs here.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Two weeks of testimony from a cast of characters including Musk, Altman and OpenAI’s co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever laid bare a lot of the company’s dysfunction.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
In the late summer yet another of Snowball’s machinations was laid bare.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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