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Example Sentences

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“The SpaceX IPO will expose just how much synthetic ownership and outright fraud has accumulated in privates.”

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

“We run the risk of some outright selling, a more disorderly market,” they add.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Even when a movie outright wins the Palme, I’m usually that guy wondering: But does it have legs to go all the way?

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Indeed, he repeatedly talked up the prospect of outright victory, a very high bar in a parliament where the electoral system is designed to make minority or coalition government the norm.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

James Jackson actually made menacing faces at the Quakers in the gallery, called them outright lunatics, then launched into a tirade so emotional and incoherent that reporters in the audience had difficulty recording his words.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis