frank
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Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov described the talks as "constructive, extremely frank".
From BBC ● 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
"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
“That is because my lord Benderesk has not been wholly frank with you. I will be frank. Come, sit by me here.”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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
“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
Between men and women who have established what they believe to be an unemotional friendship there nearly always springs up a relation franker than any which is otherwise possible.
From Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades
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 frankest man in some respects that ever lived, Captain Galbraith Barclay was reticent as a clam when he saw fit to keep silent, and men found it useless to question or women to hint.
From A Trooper Galahad by Charles King
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