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“To be quite frank, I just don’t see everything getting to 100% by the end of the season,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Not Built in a Day” is frank about the limits of our ability to know what life was like for the enslaved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

“It quickly became apparent to me,” he wrote, that. . . the prison warden, to be effective, would have to constitute himself not as an instrument of punishment but a firm, frank friend in need.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

I would like to believe that this is a watershed moment, that the downfall of so many powerful men will curb others, that we will have franker conversations about what needs to change.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2017

“Reset” sounds so careful and inoffensive and technocratic; after seeing a glimpse of the franker, free-wheeling Ellen Pao, one can’t help hoping for something more.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2017

I ought perhaps," he began, "to have been franker in this matter.

From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus

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

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

Reynold had spoken out of the bitterness of his heart, and a bitter frankness is the frankest of all.

From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Margaret Veley