frank
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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
Don’t you think . . . excuse me for being frank.
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
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
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
And now that I have been frank," he went on, "let me be franker.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident 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
In framing this as the frankest discussion of their marriage to date, they manage to get away with saying very little.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 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
He had one of the handsomest faces I had ever looked upon; eyes of the frankest blue, a most engaging air, and a smile that was almost irresistibly winning.
From By Wit of Woman by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
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