expose

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The backbone of this expose is a cache of secret video tapes shot by "Portland's finest" as they rampaged through the streets in defense of the Empire.

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  1. transitive verb To subject or allow to be subjected to an action, influence, or condition: exposed themselves to disease; exposed their children to classical music.
  2. transitive verb To subject (a photographic film, for example) to the action of light.
  3. transitive verb To deprive of shelter or protection; lay open to danger or harm: troops that were exposed to gunfire.
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  • The backbone of this expose is a cache of secret video tapes shot by "Portland's finest" as they rampaged through the streets in defense of the Empire. —  portland indymedia - features
  • Turns out the expose was about Akon's fictional criminal past: his three years in jail - which inspired "Locked Up" - was actually three years probation. —  Whudat • The Latest Black Celebrity News and Views sprinkled with flavors
  • How do these people bare their souls and expose, as Marcia Brady would say, their "innermost secrets" to a public who will only laugh at their past misery? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Sue here at Facing South reported on Wednesday about the sudden "glitch" that befell WHNT TV in Huntsville, Alabama last weekend -- precisely at the moment that a 60 Minutes expose was airing which argued that the prosecution of former ... —  Facing South
  • While the company says its taken steps to correct the problems underscored by a CCTV expose, and U.S. investors are confident that Google won't ever win the race in this country, the numbers are still enough to make Baidu sweat a little. —  Shanghaiist
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  1. Middle English exposen, from Old French exposer, alteration (influenced by poser, to put, place) of Latin expōnere, to set forth; see expound.

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  1. from Old French exposer (= Provencal expauzar), from Latin exponere, past participle expositus, set forth, lay open, expose (see expone, expound), but in form confused with Old French poser, etc., Middle Latin pausare, place. Cf. appose, appose, compose, depose, impose, propose, repose, suppose, transpose.
 

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