flatly
Example Sentences
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When the BBC’s legal team did exactly that, Secret Service counsel Troy Epstein flatly declared the agency was neither authorized to accept service on the family’s behalf nor willing to help facilitate it.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was flatly refused by the Newsom administration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
While the Fed’s rules don’t flatly forbid closed-door meetings, they instruct officials to avoid sharing personal policy views with anyone who could profit financially unless those views are already public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Brian Jabarian, a University of Chicago economist who conducted a rigorous independent evaluation of A.I. detectors, told me flatly, “This narrative that we shouldn’t use A.I. detection doesn’t seem to hold anymore.”
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
“Your mom can’t even make rice,” he says flatly.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
