unmask
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The Times reporting enraged Trump, and the administration tried to unmask the paper’s sources before ultimately backing down.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
She sat down with the BBC's Women's Football Weekly podcast and addressed media in a press conference that helped unmask the global superstar.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The Wall Street Journal identified 10 people—nine Americans and one Canadian—who pushed back against DHS’s attempts to unmask them through the two types of subpoenas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Gen. Cameron Bell to explain the thinking behind a pair of trailblazing new laws meant to unmask the federal immigration agents patrolling Golden State streets and compel them to identify themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
Whoever did this had wanted only to unmask me without my permission, to humiliate me by intentionally undermining a decision I’d made to keep some parts of me for just myself.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
Meghan Kobza’s “The Masquerade” unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London, where the commercial “middling sort” acquired the numbers and money to emulate the private entertainments of kings and aristocrats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The BBC unmasks, for the first time, how the late Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua faked the miracles that drew millions of people to his church.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
Johnson not only unmasks himself in the “Fast X” tag, he matches Momoa’s unhinged energy with a crowd-pleasing ferocity that brings the mood up from an otherwise glum cliffhanger in the film’s final moments.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
The song even unmasks the grim realities of undergoing the procedure.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022
Self-acceptance and this view of man-in-his-world, like a magnifying glass, unmasks for a nurse her possible responses, motivations, and alternatives.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
A morally questionable reporter-turned TV host is the protagonist of Lance Oppenheim's "Primetime", based on the real-life NBC television show "To Catch a Predator" that unmasked paedophiles after luring them to staged meetings with minors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Vienna police released photos of the two suspects, who were unmasked, captured on security cameras.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The fraud was unmasked April 27 after Bowker heard from town officials following her payment inquiries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The resulting images of the unmasked agent went viral, but identified the wrong individuals.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026
Two of the spies unmasked by Ames—Oleg Gordievsky and Sergei Bokhan—escaped with their lives.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Even before Cerimedo’s arrest, Latin American journalists had begun unmasking Cerimedo as a prodigious purveyor of fake news — about himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Replimune’s therapy turbo-charges the response to other immunotherapies by unmasking cancer cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
After federal immigration officers shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, social media users called for the unmasking of the agents responsible.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026
To disrupt that message, West suggests unmasking the obvious fact that the content creators themselves are con artists selling a sham product.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025
To the Crown, the speech revealed the ANC’s true and secret intent, unmasking the ANC’s public pretense of nonviolence.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
