openly

Example Sentences

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Women rarely get to show ambition or greed, and she does that openly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

To live openly as an LGBTQ+ person in a hostile culture is to choose authenticity over safety, and truth over social reward.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

“The fact that I was a bad boyfriend a decade ago, that’s something I’ve talked about openly at length for quite some time in multiple places,” he told Hayes on Thursday.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

"The things that were hard for each other... There was a time we talked openly and worked through it," Chaewon explained.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

By the end of the decade, some justices had become openly critical of the review that death penalty cases received.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson