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straightforwardly





ADVERB
squarely
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This is war writing at its best, brutally and straightforwardly told because the events and deeds Sledge recounts require no embellishment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

As journalist Max Read pointed out recently, Musk's project isn't "like" Gamergate, but "straightforwardly is Gamergate, composed of many of the exact same people" rehashing the same unjustified grievances.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2025

It was also not as straightforwardly godlike an act of creation.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2024

It allows you to straightforwardly determine the x and y coordinates of an atom.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024

The really remarkable cases are those of prospective discovery, since they straightforwardly refute the claim that all discoveries are necessarily retrospective constructions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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