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out of the closet

ADJECTIVE

exposed

Synonyms

WEAK

brought to light candid disclosed divulged exposed open open and aboveboard open to view out out in the open out into the open revealed uncovered unveiled

Example Sentences

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A retinue assembled to escort the workers out of the closet, into their cars, and back home, without being tailed, without being detained.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

"I would have been a happier person being out of the closet and being free," he told El Pais in 2024.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

People look at people all the time as trendsetters when I know for a fact that they just put on the first few things they grabbed out of the closet.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2024

Mr. Biden “booted Netanyahu out of the closet of ambiguity and presented Netanyahu’s proposal himself,” Ben Caspit, a biographer and longtime critic of Mr. Netanyahu, wrote in Sunday’s Maariv, a Hebrew daily.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2024

Eddie comes out of the closet with a giant piece of cardboard.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy