candor
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Lloyd’s said it has now taken steps to strengthen its governance, including “a duty of candor being imposed on the Chief Executive.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
But falling in love at such a formative age allowed us to develop a mutual transparency and radical candor that I’ve learned few people possess, especially with their exes.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
His debut, about a small-town girl trying to make it in Chicago, describes the realities of factory work with raw, naturalist candor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
This exemplary service failed to account for her disturbingly poor judgment, risking blackmail and conflict-of-interest allegations, since the Atlanta Police Department appears before her court; nor her lack of candor to the court.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
Then the candor of the woman’s whole existence, which every one might read, and which formed so striking a contrast to her own habitual reserve—this might have furnished a link.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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