verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a study reveals sth (= shows something, especially something surprising )
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A recent study revealed that 74% of donuts are bought on impulse.
a survey shows/reveals sth
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Our survey showed that many women are afraid to go out alone at night.
an inspection reveals sth
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The inspection revealed several lapses in safety standards.
disclose/reveal/release details (= make secret information public )
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The company has refused to reveal any technical details until next month.
expose/reveal/show sth's/sb's limitations (= show where something or someone is not very good )
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The film shows his limitations as a actor.
reveal the presence of sth/sb
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Excavations revealed the presence of an ancient burial ground.
reveal the truth
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She’d promised never to reveal the truth.
reveal/disclose sb’s identity (= show or say who a person is )
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The company did not reveal the identity of the prospective buyer.
reveal/divulge a secret formal (= tell it to someone )
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He was accused of revealing state secrets.
show/reveal the extent of sth
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These pictures show the extent of the devastation caused by the earthquake.
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A report published by the government has revealed the extent of air pollution in the area.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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It was also revealed that Captain Vassilis Yannakis had been in command of at least one other ship that sank.
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The paper also revealed the questionable activities and backgrounds of several deputies.
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It also reveals in the latest year that dividends payable were greater than profits for the year.
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The report also revealed interesting local variations.
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This exercise will also reveal the likely users of the information system.
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The papers also reveal Avis executives had been aware of the allegations for at least a decade.
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It can also reveal areas for growth and work, aiding progress and maturity.
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In a more unsettling development, the report also revealed a big jump in prices paid for raw materials.
how
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It reveals how thousands of Shias have fled across the border to escape.
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In other words, the outside surface would not necessarily reveal how the framework of the building was constructed.
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Finally, the study reveals how information specialists' subjective orientations further individualize the use of this ideology.
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He provided documents to the committee that revealed how the forced-labor system works.
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Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time.
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This example reveals how the search for regularities is structured and the methods that are used.
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But Community Care can reveal how she so easily fell prey to her son and lost almost everything.
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It is revealing how generously the artists to whom the college wrote responded to the invitation.
yesterday
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It was revealed yesterday when the document detailing the William Hill sale was sent to shareholders.
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We revealed yesterday that another of Courtney's victims is still too terrified to tell police that he attacked her.
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But his 11-year-old pal panicked because he was frightened of getting into trouble, it was revealed yesterday .
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The rift was revealed yesterday when a charge that he attacked lover Joanna Gibson was dropped at her request in court.
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The dressing-down comes as a 60 percent rise in complaints against banks was revealed yesterday .
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The full horror of the attack was revealed yesterday by the bloody scene inside the white van.
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And our sister paper the Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday she had given 37-year-old Bryan a room there.
■ NOUN
detail
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It projects an image of the Sun that fills a wall, revealing fine details on the boiling solar surface.
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It reveals pathetic details about the Clintons' marriage, their personalities and their judgment.
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Barleycorn can reveal the details of the new Managers Car Scheme.
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Garven said he could not reveal details of the draft report.
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In Clare's brief Journal, too, are entries that reveal the detail of the heath landscape.
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E and her company are too preliminary to reveal details of the new system.
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Police are revealing few details about the fifth victim, who at this stage they are not linking definitely with the others.
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He revealed details of the royal couple's unhappy marriage and told of Diana's bulimia.
extent
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If we had had something similar before, this would have revealed the full extent of our Director's motoring convictions.
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Modern surveys have revealed the extent to which the public expects the Royal Family to earn its privileged position.
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The popularity of religious cult communities reveals the extent to which many people have turned their backs on the family.
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Noades has revealed the full extent of fury from Selhurst Park supporters at what they perceived as his personal attack on Coppell.
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The case reveals the extent to which the church as an institution was coupled with the nation.
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Recent surveys including that carried out by the Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 have revealed the extent to which Britain is multilingual.
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That the vanguard was so severely curtailed reveals the extent of the Soviet Union's conservatism, conformism and inferiority complex.
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Table 8.1 revealed the extent to which flexible exchange rates have been adopted.
identity
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Cory reveals his identity as a member of Space Security.
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It revealed his identity as the estranged son of a wealthy senator, whom he had served for the past seventeen years.
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The Bolton Area Health Authority was forced to reveal his identity after he was named in local newspapers.
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Mr Goldinger has declined to answer questions or reveal the identities and the losses suffered by dozens of investors.
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She asked the woman on the settee to reveal her identity .
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Authorities said Friday night that they had identified the woman but would not reveal her identity until relatives had been notified.
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I am also supposed to have died, according to the surprised traders to whom I have revealed my identity over the phone.
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It's just that it seems a pity for him to reveal his identity .
name
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Crowe then had the vulgar audacity to offer me a pitiful ten quid if I revealed the manager's name .
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This he freely admitted, although, even so, neither he nor Mama would ever reveal what his real name was.
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At the minimum we would be under pressure to reveal the names of the Chairman.
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Holmes wants Lenhart to reveal the names of grand jurors who contacted her about a controversial Bellaire police slaying.
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The E numbers search reveals the chemical name and applications of the additive.
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The cut is more for comfort than to reveal a designer name on the waistband of a pair of briefs.
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Straight genomics has revealed the names of the stations, but without showing how they connect with one another.
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Colin Dexter says he will reveal the name in his final book.
nature
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It has revealed a social nature somewhat different from that of the traditional peasantry of the advanced capitalist countries.
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It shows enough to reveal the nature and genuineness of the reality, but not so much as to overwhelm.
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But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world.
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It is a grandiose occasion that reveals the nature of both the institution and its members.
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It is also true that studies of this kind tend only to highlight differences without revealing the qualitative nature of the differences.
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The predictability of the direct objects of gnash and purse is revealed by the pleonastic nature of?
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Often it takes meetings such as this to reveal the pervasive nature of culturally determined behaviour.
night
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McHale hinted that he may make as many as four changes for the trip, but was not revealing anything last night .
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He is considering an appeal against his five-year sentence, it was revealed last night .
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Manager Kevin Keegan revealed last night that the experienced pair will go on the transfer list on Monday.
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It was revealed last night that the Lord Chancellor wants a report after complaints about the judge from other women staff.
number
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The radar reveals a number of poleward-moving regions in which the electron temperature is elevated by a factor of 1.5.
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After purchasing a card from a vendor or through the mail, customers scratch off the surface to reveal their account number .
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In this we reveal the number of calories and the quantity of dietary fibre present in the useful canned and packaged foods.
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It was clearly a time of emotional upheaval, as revealed by a number of uncomfortable disclosures.
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Sir Antony revealed a number of bids from interested parties were under consideration and a Sola announcement was pending.
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Boeing declined to reveal the number of planes involved in those dollar totals and market shares.
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In spite of their inevitably unsatisfactory character they reveal a number of points of importance.
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Then, and only then, do the players reveal their serial numbers and determine who is bluffing whom.
report
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Todays report reveals that the pressure she was under is far from rare.
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The report also revealed interesting local variations.
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The Beveridge Report was revealing on this.
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Instead of hearing eight separate opinions, they melded their ideas into two reports that revealed considerable overlap.
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A federal government report revealing that diets don't work has triggered a revolt against the £20 billion slimming industry.
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In a more unsettling development, the report also revealed a big jump in prices paid for raw materials.
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One environmentalist said last night that the report would reveal whether that criticism had been fair.
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The NetValue report also revealed that women are now more active users of the Net than men.
secret
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The charges included conspiracy, espionage, revealing state secrets and threatening the Constitution.
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But why Zeus changed his mind and whether Prometheus revealed the secret when he was freed, we do not know.
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He did not reveal his secret to his brothers, or to any of his friends in his village.
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But Evelyn felt quite sure that he would not reveal her secret .
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Theresa when she described one of her mystical visions as revealing to her the secrets of the Trinity.
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Who do you reveal your secrets to?
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It provided simple, useful information, but revealed no secrets .
study
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Finally, the study reveals how information specialists' subjective orientations further individualize the use of this ideology.
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Study after study reveals the dangers of lightly trafficked streets near home for young children.
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Nationwide studies reveal that savings card holders spend an average 33 percent more, or $ 36, on groceries each week.
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Case studies also reveal evidence of local discretion in other respects.
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Tree-ring studies have revealed severe infestations of spruce budworms even in pre-settlement days.
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A study of these emendations reveals countless examples of the replacement of one stylistic variant by another.
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Other studies have revealed similar findings.
survey
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The survey reveals much greater support for reform than previously thought.
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Our survey revealed a noise pollution impact on the community that is not imagined.
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The survey reveals a staggering lack of understanding about rural Britain.
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The surveys also revealed why changing the system will be so difficult.
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They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters.
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Barclays' survey reveals that £100 deposited in a savings account in 1899 would have grown to £13,601 today.
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They called for a broader curriculum in a survey that revealed that 14 percent believe bank loans are interest-free.
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We prayerfully proceeded with the purchasing process, only to have the property survey reveal a £5,000 defect.
truth
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Shouldn't it be the people who have as their driving force the desire to reveal truths about human life?
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You know about my father: Scripture is revealed truth .
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But the Stone finds ways and means of revealing the truth to guide moles forward.
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Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths , even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.
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But in the end Mrs Pegler is unwillingly forced to reveal the truth .
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Surface appearances, however, reveal only surface truths .
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Next week we could be warning, exposing, or revealing the truth about anything from holidays to your spring bulbs.
week
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Will revealed this week how he had therapy to help with the guilt.
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That's what was revealed this week .
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Six other international plants are to get the same treatment, and their identities will be revealed within a week .
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Her solution, it was revealed this week , was to fake her own abduction.
■ VERB
open
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Beyond is another door, which opens to reveal an ancient lavatory.
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But once we enter this world it begins to open up, revealing greater and greater subtleties.
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But this is a novelty book and many of the pages can be opened like envelopes to reveal all sorts of goodies.
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Later, she opened her jacket to reveal her Payne shirt.
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She opened the door to reveal an Army officer, who promptly saluted her.
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Mr Hendricks ordered until Billy opened his mouth, revealing the black gap of a missing front tooth.
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Four minutes past two ... I open the lid and reveal a discouraging mass of loose papers.
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The door swings open to reveal an empty top shelf.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A medical examination may reveal evidence of dietary deficiencies.
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A slight trembling of his hands revealed his growing excitement.
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Carter's face was a blank, revealing no emotion.
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Ginsberg withdrew his application to become Attorney General after it was revealed that he had smoked marijuana at college.
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His letters reveal a different side of his personality.
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Markov revealed that he had once worked for the CIA.
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Positive tests have revealed why some athletes were so reluctant to co-operate.
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Separate holidays and weekends apart reveal more clearly than any words the state of their marriage.
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She lifted the lid of the box to reveal a life-size porcelain baby doll.
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The company has just revealed its plans for the coming year, including the opening of new offices in Paris.
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The fact that there are no black officers in the entire regiment reveals that the army is not serious about its anti-discrimination policies.
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The look on my face must have revealed my embarrassment.
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The President's refusal to meet the press reveals just how serious the crisis is.
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The way he spoke in the bar afterwards revealed prejudice and bitterness that I had never suspected.
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The wooden doll opened to reveal a smaller doll within.
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What actually happened to the gold has never been revealed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A routine physical reveals an irregularity.
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His character appears to reveal the wolfhound in him.
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Naturally a candidate's response may alter once our client's identity is revealed.
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Tests will reveal if this is necessary since on test the solenoid valve will operate sluggishly or not at all.
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That was written in 1909 and, later, a similar awareness is revealed by Ozenfant.