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The outspoken designer is renowned for his frank takes on the industry - previously calling social media games such as Farmville "evil" and World of Warcraft's quest design "unethical".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

To be frank, it sounds like you don’t like this man, and that is OK.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

Little by little the town names along the way began to take on a frank industrial tone—Port Carbon, Minersville, Slatedale—and I realized I was entering the strange, half-forgotten world of Pennsylvania’s anthracite region.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

Few were franker about this fact than Micah Uetricht, associate editor for the leftist magazine Jacobin—one of the few publications identified as a Devumi customer.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2018

Strange how it amuses one to see little bits of oneself on paper, and the less garnished and franker the truths the more entertaining it is.

From The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by Sir Stephen King-Hall

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 younger one had a firm foot and large hand and the frankest open face you ever looked into.

From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin