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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

Then he asked Google to unmask three devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

"It allows neurodivergent people to unmask and be themselves," Ursie says.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

“We will unmask these thugs and hold them accountable. Full stop,” Wiener said, calling Snyder’s ruling a “huge win.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 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

“But that’s the thing with LADA: It unmasks itself over time.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

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

“If everyone in your backyard gathering stands up and unmasks to crowd around the snack table for half an hour, that will increase the risk of that activity,” Ferrer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

He unmasks virtue; he betrays Woman; and he curses the gods.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

The fraud was unmasked April 27 after Bowker heard from town officials following her payment inquiries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Whether the medication caused it, accelerated a subclinical condition, or simply unmasked something already there is nearly impossible to determine.

From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026

Once Egg is unmasked, we come to understand why he’s so drawn to this enormous man whose gentle spirit permeates Claffey’s faultless performance.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

State Sen. Sasha Renee Perez, a Democrat who represents Altadena, spoke about her efforts to pass legislation that would force ICE agents to be unmasked and identify themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz’s life even as he helped fill it.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Replimune’s therapy turbo-charges the response to other immunotherapies by unmasking cancer cells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Now he is set on unmasking the caped crusader.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

The series takes in a wide range of topics, from unmasking Jack the Ripper, to the day The Beatles came to Hull.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

Littlejohn’s unmasking of grotesque tax inequality, by contrast, was an attempt to make the U.S. more democratic, at considerable risk to himself.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2024

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