plainspoken
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When Graham Platner ran for Senate, he came with an irresistible, dream candidate profile: a plainspoken veteran and man of the people who was ready to change careers from oyster farmer to politician.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
A plainspoken veteran with a dense beard and a closet full of grimy sweatshirts, Platner fit the bill.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
Mr. Orhan offsets the novel’s magical realism with plainspoken prose that muffles Dilara’s increasingly volatile desires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Lynch was an unusual mix of plainspoken and cryptic, a guy who’d sit down at Bob’s Big Boy and write scripts that even he didn’t understand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
It was the plainspoken convictions of one of Atlanta’s numerous young black collegians who often visited our local Temple Fifteen.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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