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frank

[frangk] / fræŋk /


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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

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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