come clean
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His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
And, well, if I was going to write about others with Parkinson’s disease, I would have to come clean about myself.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
However, the prosecution argued that Singh's inaction, along with other pieces of evidence, proved that he had never intended for Khan to come clean.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
Emma is the first from her family to go to university and isn't about to come clean to her proud working class dad about why she's suddenly back.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
I said, “Yes, sir. But isn’t it just like my luck to come clean across the state to find my daddy and he turns out to be a mean old coot?”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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