frank
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To be frank, it sounds like you don’t like this man, and that is OK.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
As well as the frank discussion of mental health, the title track talks about her flirtation with internet conspiracy theories.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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
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
"He's the kind caint nobody please. Be frank though, there's lots feel like that now."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
There are moments on “Glory” that are calculated to seem franker than other moments, but it’s as impersonal as ever.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2016
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
One of the frankest statements along this line was a Fourth of July address in 1911 by no less a person than Ex-President Eliot of Harvard University.
From Your Negro Neighbor by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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