unmasked

past tense of unmask

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of unmasked Jurors, too, can never be unmasked, and their deliberations are forever secret. — Luke Jones, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026 Federal agents should be unmasked, identify themselves, and have probable cause or a judicial warrant. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 Plenty of killers have been unmasked over the years, and the bodies have piled up in increasingly inventive ways. — Scott Shilstone, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026 Though New York magazine’s former critic, Adam Platt, famously dropped anonymity way back in 2013, the first newspaper critic to unmask themself was Alison Cook of the Houston Chronicle in 2012; even Gold unmasked himself in 2015. — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026 Sporting black turtlenecks a la Steve Jobs, Holmes first gained renown and then infamy as the tech was unmasked as fraudulent by the Wall Street Journal and a subsequent federal investigation. — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026 The boy told them that Ortiz’s suspicions about a fellow trekker had been well founded; upon crossing into Spain, one of the other Poles had been unmasked as a Gestapo spy. — Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026 Baker unmasked to a huge pop from Wembley Stadium, marking her first AEW appearance since November of 2024. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 On one of their rides, the men were photographed standing around a Black woman, the only person unmasked in the crowd—an image that captured the depth of the nation’s divisions amid all the celebrations of 250 years of independence. — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmasked
Verb
  • The German luxury accessories brand has become the first luxury fashion brand to join Whatnot, the company revealed on Tuesday.
    — Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Preliminary information, according to MDSO, revealed that the victim was involved in a verbal dispute with multiple unknown suspects.
    — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Perhaps most intriguingly, the researchers also saw signs that the rock had been exposed to water during its evolution, a find detailed in work published this summer in Science Advances.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Holding Liberty to 145 rushing yards showed promise, but allowing seven touchdowns on seven red-zone trips exposed a significant weakness.
    — Alejandro Hernandez, Miami Herald, 1 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, beyond highlighting that Digital Dust’s founders, Federica Zucchi and Alessandra De Siena, together with CEO Matteo Zucchi and the agency’s entire team, will remain on-board.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Meta last week disclosed a quarter of negative free cash flow for the first time since 2012.
    — Lucy Bayly, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Season broth with salt and freshly ground black pepper and simmer, uncovered, until flavors come together and broth is rich tasting, about 20 minutes.
    — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The program, named Operation Janus, initially uncovered three hundred and fifteen thousand instances of missing fingerprint data in immigration files, which were flagged for further investigation.
    — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Nearly 2 pounds of the meteorite was discovered in the Sahara in Mali in 2022, and most is now held by a museum in Maine.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • However, this remains a conceptual demonstration, not a system that has discovered an extraterrestrial transmission.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • At the Vatican a day earlier, Leo told the teams from alma mater Villanova and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame that in matters of sport, the pontiff was neutral.
    — Andrew Dampf, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
  • In other cases, developers have told towns that decade-old ideas for enormous retail development of open parcels simply aren’t practical anymore.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026

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“Unmasked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmasked. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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