frank
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Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov called the talks "extremely frank", saying the Americans "put forward a number of ideas on possible routes to a settlement", but did not elaborate.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
But not accounting for Galliano’s 15 years of sobriety, his frank apologies, and his continued remorse is somewhat unnerving.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
“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
One evening, a frank debate played out over a poker game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
I had asked him to be frank, so I could not complain.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
"I 'll not believe one word against him," said Tony, sturdily; "an honester, franker face I never looked at."
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
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
The young man rose, after a minute, and offered me his hand in the frankest manner; and then calling for a fresh bottle, they drank wine with me, and I went back to my breakfast.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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