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One evening, a frank debate played out over a poker game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

"We must be frank: the epidemic is far from being under control," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an emergency meeting on the outbreak.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

To Grande’s point, and to be especially frank, that is more on those people and how their support systems help them better understand those images than her.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

Peet is excited by the frank portrayal of it all onscreen: “Seeing more middle-aged women in leading roles makes it more likely that you’re gonna be able to touch on these things.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

He still hadn’t officially announced his varsity boat assignments, but he was frank: “The sophomore crew has been a deep disappointment to me.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

Maybe it would open the door for a franker conversation about his functionality that he is as yet too ashamed to broach?

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2021

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

This was a Mary Smith, no less beautiful, but gay and fresh as the morning, in dainty white with a broad blue sash, with something new, something of a franker bearing in her air.

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman

In 2020 your sister published “Open Book,” which is one of the frankest celebrity memoirs I’ve read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025

Would you say that the latest episode of Red Table Talk features the show’s frankest discussion of infidelity yet?

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 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

“The picture drawn in the poem,” says the article in question, “is that of an arch hypocrite, and the frankest of fools.”

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe