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How to use the word whitewash in a Sentence?

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At best, these travel vloggers who visit Afghanistan are clueless and naive, at worst, they are useful idiots whose opportunism helps whitewash the Taliban’s awful crimes.

Arash Azizzada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's reprehensible that the International Olympic Committee has bowed down to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), ignored their gross human rights violations, and allowed them to host this year's Olympics, just as they did in 2008, the CCP will certainly use these Olympics in an attempt to whitewash their genocide, military aggression and oppression of their own people.

Michael McCaul

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The 2022 Winter Olympics will be remembered as the genocide games, the CCP's purpose is to exactly turn the sports arena into a stage for political legitimacy and a tool to whitewash all those atrocities.

Teng Biao

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The new policies can not be used to whitewash the prior bad judgment, failures of leadership and violation of the Fed's own policies if not the law.

Dennis Kelleher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Let’s not whitewash it because it is, and yes, we should be teaching our kids the history of this country so they won’t make the same mistakes that were made by our generations before us, and when we put up things like this, for instance, I think it’s a disservice.

Royce West

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What I appreciate about his soliloquy is the fact that he gave us his truth, his rationale as to why he was supporting the amendment to force teachers through law to whitewash historical events.

Antonio Parkinson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is about whether the Republican Party is going to perpetuate lies about the 2020 election and attempt to whitewash what happened on Jan 6, liz Cheney will not do that. That is the issue.

Jeremy Adler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can't embrace the notion the election is stolen. It's a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy, we can't whitewash what happened on January 6 or perpetuate Trump's big lie. It is a threat to democracy. What he did on January 6 is a line that can not be crossed.

Liz Cheney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What does that accomplish ? Does that advance race relations in America ? In the world ? it is what it is. History is what it is. You don't whitewash history. That is an act of, frankly, stupidity.

Patrick Conley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If the PR industry suffers from this negative reputation, it is because many people associate our profession with politicians and business people who use various contrivances and tricks to conceal or whitewash their flaws and wrongdoings.

Maxim Behar

added by MaximBehar
3 years ago

Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation's history, as is The President. We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
4 years ago

NSO is a company that has a history of saying one thing and doing another, the reason why they are doing this is to whitewash violations.

Danna Ingleton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If we indulge crimes and breaches of the law, even whitewash, exonerate or give them support, that would be a blatant challenge to the rule of law in Hong Kong, which will eventually hurt the interest of all the Hong Kong people, hence, the central government firmly supports Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the Special Administrative Region government continue to govern effectively and actively make a difference in accordance with the law, firmly supports Hong Kong Police to do their duties in accordance with the law.

Wang Zhimin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is a whitewash of justice, from top to bottom, this is not on the level.

Rahm Emanuel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The AFA's acceptance to play with The Israelis in Jerusalem have reminded us all of how The Israelis uses sports as a tool to whitewash The Israelis actions.

Jibril Rajoub

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A coroner is independent of the government, a coroner’s inquest goes into an investigation with an open mind, they don’t go into it to prove a thesis. A public inquiry into this man’s death was to prove a thesis, that he killed himself. It was a whitewash, a travesty.

Miles Goslett

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Our bottom line is we are unflinching about this man, we don't sugarcoat or whitewash anything. We consider ourselves not just nonpartisan, but straight-up.

Jane Harman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Any presentation to a grand jury -- without the prosecutor advocating for Tamir -- is a charade, to get so-called experts to assist in the whitewash -- when the world has the video of what happened -- is all the more alarming.

Subodh Chandra

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would definitely use the term whitewash, i feel like it was given to a legal team to make sure it sounded legally correct.

Katie Hopper

Found on CNN
8 years ago

No, I mean the explanation would be there is cultural problem there. It's like, 'Ohhh, he's one of ours. Let's send him home. Let's bury this, let's whitewash this. Let's pretend this never happened.' Why else would it be?

Ron Johnson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

Richard Nixon

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)

Richard Milhous Nixon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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