exposé
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- noun
- /ˌɛkspəˈzeɪ/
- Literature
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reportaje de investigación
- The newspaper published an exposé that revealed the corruption within the local government.
- a brief exposé
- a local exposé
- write an exposé
Examples
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Will Americans react as they did when Sinclair Lewis published his famous exposé on the actual sausage factories?
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Rolling Stone magazine recently published a shockingly detailed exposé on the Dartmouth fraternity scene.
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Dateline did an exposé on it.
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Many thanks for a brilliant exposé on the "hidden" costs of financial suppression.
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Yes, and I'm writing an exposé on animal rights abuses in the food industry.
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But everything changed on April 17, when 60 Minutes broadcast an exposé of Mortenson.
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Aaron and I have made several award-winning public radio exposés.
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The viper John Cook Bennett had published his exposé, which charged that Smith was seeking nothing less than world domination.
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The liberal New York World took the lead, and newspapers across the country reprinted its exposé of Klan activities.
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Last night, PBS Frontline premiered their exposé of climate science denial's key players titled Climate of Doubt.
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Synonyms
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A written or spoken account that gives information about something
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Making secret or new information known to others
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A surprising fact that people did not know before
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Making a secret or hidden thing known to people
Finding and showing something that was hidden
Antonyms
How Revealing
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word exposé comes from French parts ex- 'out' and pose 'place', like the English verb 'expose'. So an exposé 'puts out' hidden facts in a report so people can see them.