1
as in to reveal
to make known (as information previously kept secret)
the killer's identity won't be unmasked until the season's final episode
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as in to expose
to reveal the true nature of
unmasked the motives of the people advocating the sale of the publicly owned land
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Recent Examples of unmask
Think of it like that meme of unmasking the Scooby Doo Monster.
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Kristen Arnett
july 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
At the federal level, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., who was briefly handcuffed last month after confronting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has introduced legislation to unmask officers and require visible identification.
—Lia Russell
updated July 17, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2025
His most significant accomplishment was unmasking the legendary Dr. Wagner Jr. at Triplemanía XXV, a career-defining moment in modern Lucha Libre.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Trump, born in 1946, has spent his entire life observing that order unmasking itself as the old imperial abattoir reborn: in the ashes of Korea, the killing fields of Indonesia, the burning jungles of Vietnam, the torture camps of the war on terror, and the bloody rubble of Gaza.
—Erik Baker, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Kristen Arnett
july 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
At the federal level, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., who was briefly handcuffed last month after confronting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, has introduced legislation to unmask officers and require visible identification.
—Lia Russell
updated July 17, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2025
His most significant accomplishment was unmasking the legendary Dr. Wagner Jr. at Triplemanía XXV, a career-defining moment in modern Lucha Libre.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Trump, born in 1946, has spent his entire life observing that order unmasking itself as the old imperial abattoir reborn: in the ashes of Korea, the killing fields of Indonesia, the burning jungles of Vietnam, the torture camps of the war on terror, and the bloody rubble of Gaza.
—Erik Baker, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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But a butt dial revealed the truth about what actually happened, the complaint alleges.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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Alongside this, large-scale genetic studies have revealed sweeping changes in the human brain that are not seen in other mammals.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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No student or teacher should be exposed to these hazards.—
Erica Mosca,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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The fund will expose investors to fast-growing newer entrants like hardware and cloud provider IonQ and quantum chip fabricator Rigetti, alongside Big Tech players Microsoft, Nvidia, and IBM.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Some of the victims were foreign nationals, though authorities have not disclosed specifics regarding their identities or nationalities.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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The terms of the decade-long deal, which kick off with the 2025 Italian Grand Prix in Monza running Friday to Sunday, were not disclosed.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
4 Sep. 2025
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Initially dismissed as an accident, Charles, Oliver and Mabel dive headfirst into the investigation, uncovering a sprawling conspiracy that stretches beyond the building’s walls and entangles New York’s old mob families with its newest billionaires.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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In the area of the bridge ruins, a number of other artifacts were also uncovered.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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As The Athletic discovered on a recent stroll along the waterfront from the city centre, there’s certainly plenty of land ripe for development.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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For the uninitiated, the Hall effect, first discovered in 1879 by Edwin Hall, is a phenomenon where an electric current flowing through a conductor or semiconductor in the presence of a magnetic field produces a voltage across the material.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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The cause of the accident was not immediately known, although the car appeared to have derailed, which a source from the Lisbon Firefighters Regiment told local media may have been caused by a loose cable leading to brake failure.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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Figma added four new AI-native tools to its platform this quarter and told investors on the call to expect significant investments in AI going forward.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Unmask.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmask. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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