come clean
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We will come clean with our own views on these races: Whatever, man.
From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026
“I’d come clean with the voters about where we are fiscally.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
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
China wants to completely shift the narrative, says Mr Dhar, "It is trying to come clean amidst increased scrutiny".
From BBC • May 5, 2025
They both want me to come clean, to tell my parents I found the box, to be honest with them about how Tm feeling.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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