frank
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Stubb described the discussion between the three as "frank and substantive".
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
“These discussions are very frank and oddly not at all awkward,” Kao told the FBI.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
"She gave a full and frank admission to the offence and showed remorse to each of her victims. That is genuine remorse and regret for what she did," said Edwards.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Now, a long-awaited independent investigation commissioned by Gov. Gavin Newsom provides the most frank and in-depth review of the Jan. 7, 2025 catastrophes, and points out multiple shortcomings in governmental planning and response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
“I’m afraid not,” Theodora said, and the other three turned and regarded her with frank dismay.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
Temptingly, he explained that “the theater, behind the scenes, has an emotional freemasonry of its own, certainly franker and arguably wholesomer than the stiffness of suburban society outside.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Kozinn and Sinclair paint her as a complex person, occasionally haughty or petty, but franker and more open with the press.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
It was, said Bobby Wagner, an ugly win by the Seahawks — a frank assessment for which wide receiver Tyler Lockett had a slightly franker amendment.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2019
But a South Korean presidential adviser offered a franker assessment.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
You are franker with her than with me, and you tell her a very different tale.”
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Passages like these are some of the frankest and most resonant I have read about what death does to the bereaved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
In framing this as the frankest discussion of their marriage to date, they manage to get away with saying very little.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2020
Ellison’s closeness with Wright brings out some of his frankest early letters.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
“This may be the frankest and most important presidential correspondence of this century,” he told the New York Times.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2018
Good cousin," said she, in her frankest manner, "I confess: I did suspect—for an instant.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
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