Example Sentences

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A new map has unmasked the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice in unprecedented detail, something scientists say could greatly enhance our understanding of the frozen white continent.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

At the same time, he said he feels that his behavior has been unjustly lumped in with the more egregious misconduct that the #MeToo movement has unmasked.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2020

Previously robust growth in the region was propped up by high oil and mineral prices, but their global collapse has unmasked deep vulnerabilities in key African economies like Nigeria, South Africa and Angola.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2016

One is that Russia’s F.S.B., the post-Soviet K.G.B., simply wants to settle scores with Estonia’s intelligence agency, which in recent years has unmasked four moles working for Russia.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2014

It has shown the general philanthropist; it has unmasked the vicious in spite of his pretension to virtue.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) by Clarkson, Thomas