exposé

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  1. noun An exposure or a revelation of something discreditable.
  2. noun A formal exposition of facts.

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  • This issue of Whistleblower "is not only the most complete and thorough exposé of the eligibility questions surrounding Barack Obama's presidency," says WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah, "it is an indictment of the process that put him in the White House Jan. 20 of this year."
  • In 2004, I interviewed a number of leading US scientific figures, doing so while writing an exposé series on the drug industry.
  • More on the bias of BBC's Orla Guerin. exposé of Jeff Halper's many false claims. —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • Matteo Garrone's corrosive, slapdash exposé of organized crime in and around Naples comes on like —  The Pitch | Complete Issue
  • Lesbian couples undergoing IVF now permitted to put both names on birth certificates Mark Oaten: 'Journalists knew about my secret gay sex life three years before exposé' —  PinkNews.co.uk
 

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  1. French, past participle of exposer, to expose, from Old French; see expose.

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  1. French, from exposer, expose: see expose.
 

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