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That evidence, the scientists said, increased their confidence that they had unmasked the main authors.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2022

We had unmasked the masked fraudster but who was he?

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2021

The files reveal that Thatcher agreed to a Foreign Office recommendation to "draw a line under the Gordievsky episode" and not expel Czech, Bulgarian and East German agents the defector had unmasked.

From US News • Dec. 30, 2014

As the revelations by Mr. Snowden, a former N.S.A. contractor, were gaining attention in the news media, the White House and leaders in both parties stood united behind the programs he had unmasked.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2013

It had been always I who had unmasked myself, and she who listened--alone; and in this voluntariness and this privacy there had been something which seemed to take from the shame of anticipation.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.