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In 2022, a former Twitter worker, Ahmad Abouammo, was found guilty of spying for Saudi officials keen to unmask critics on the platform.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Smith conformed to the type of the absent-minded professor, but he was worldly enough to unmask the East India Co., a hybrid sovereign ruler and monopolistic business enterprise, as a misgoverned money pit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

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

It unmasks cancer cells, allowing the immune system to identify and destroy them.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2022

“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

I am still rich in friends, Still loved by Destiny; for in the moment That it unmasks the plotting hypocrite, It sends and proves to me one faithful heart.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke

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 best performance in the film might be that of Jack Haven as Little Death, whom we see unmasked only briefly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

It’s toward the end and Ethan has just unmasked himself, literally, to catch the bad guys.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

I wanted to see how she copes with the unmasking of perhaps a version of the gay experience that she’s gathered over time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Banksy’s unmasking may affect the logistics behind his art projects as well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 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