to expose
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4.1
- verb
- /ɪkˈspoʊz/
:
revelar
- The documentary aims to expose the hidden realities of climate change.
- expose the truth
- expose a secret
- expose weaknesses
What made you want to expose concerns around gender?
- What made you want to expose concerns around gender?
- And Oprah Winfrey would expose the group nationally.
- And make the case publicly expose all the wrongdoing.
- And the test today is, are you going to expose these abuses of young girls?
- The more you actually expose her, the more support she gets.
- But he wrote an article exposing the fraud that was Terranos.
- They're furious that he has exposed them for what they are.
- Now he's clearly exposing himself as the issue here.
- Europe's reliance on Russia for energy exposed a real weak point.
- So AI certainly could be helpful in terms of exposing where we're especially vulnerable.
- And and I just don't know that that exposing that to the world, like the.
- If you're going against what they're exposing, what they're doing, they're going to get you.
Examples
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Her goal is to expose the corrupt practices of corporate leaders.
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We're going to expose the Organization.
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What made you want to expose concerns around gender?
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And the test today is, are you going to expose these abuses of young girls?
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He has to expose the truth.
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Over the last 15 years, a body of research has exposed concerning weaknesses in U.S. math curricula.
Academic text (2012) -
The planning and the conference itself exposed some important internal tensions and contradictions within Morales's MAS government.
Academic text (2012) -
In the Lectures, Dewey exposes the family as an institution plagued by conservatism and inequality.
Academic text (2017) -
The journalist worked tirelessly to expose the truth behind the scandal.
Synonyms
∞
2.3
Show something that was hidden or secret
∞
3.6
To make news known quickly
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3.5
Reveal secret facts to the public
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4.1
To tell people information that was secret
219
4.1
To tell secret information to the public without permission
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3.4
Tell a secret on purpose or by accident
109
4.1
To make something known for the first time
45
6.2
To tell secret or private information to people
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3.7
Tell secret or private information to other people
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3.9
To show information people do not know
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3.7
To show facts that were hidden before
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6.0
Tell a secret by accident before others know
8
3.7
Make secret information known to the public
8
6.8
Reveal secret information that shocks people
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5.1
To tell a secret that should be kept
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7.1
To reveal information that was previously hidden
2
5.5
To show something hidden so people can see it
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6.5
To make a secret suddenly become known
1
5.5
To tell a secret by accident and spoil a surprise
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7.7
To make something hidden become visible by removing a cover or showing the truth
Phrasal Verbs
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5.6
To put yourself in a situation to experience something new or difficult
How Revealed
Surface Forms
Morphology
expose = ex + pos
This sense is not productively inferable from 'ex-' plus any recognizable English base, so learners usually must know the whole verb 'expose' as a lexical item.
Etymology
Expose comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and ponere 'to place', the same root as position. So to expose information or secrets is to 'place them out' in the open, making hidden facts visible.