outright

Example Sentences

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The softer services advance was tied to an outright decline of 1.1% in the margins for trade services, a metric that tracks the difference between selling prices and acquisition costs.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Some other categories posted outright declines from the previous month.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The risk now is of a long, attritional permacrisis that will lurch in and out of outright conflict.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

After leading outright Thursday, she came back to earth Friday with a 73 but was still only a shot off the leader.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

It was hitting us both, I assumed, that there were perhaps important things we hadn’t discussed, that we had perhaps divergent views on whether this was a temporary farewell or an outright, geographically induced breakup.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama