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
"HMRC is running a disclosure facility where taxpayers can come clean on undeclared gains and unpaid tax prior to April 2024."
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026
She wasn’t the first to come clean like this.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2025
To Corby’s credit, he ultimately opts to come clean in the name of accountability.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025
Ma rushed into the room like she expected to see my leg had come clean off or something.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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