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[frangk] / fræŋk /


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To Grande’s point, and to be especially frank, that is more on those people and how their support systems help them better understand those images than her.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

And under Xi, Zhu's style of open, frank talk by officials has been replaced by a much more staid, closed-off approach.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Peet is excited by the frank portrayal of it all onscreen: “Seeing more middle-aged women in leading roles makes it more likely that you’re gonna be able to touch on these things.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Trying facilitating a frank conversation about what needs to be in order.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

She even missed the porridge, which, to be frank, was sometimes lumpy, especially if one let it get cold.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Kozinn and Sinclair paint her as a complex person, occasionally haughty or petty, but franker and more open with the press.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2022

It was, said Bobby Wagner, an ugly win by the Seahawks — a frank assessment for which wide receiver Tyler Lockett had a slightly franker amendment.

From Seattle Times Sep. 8, 2019

But a South Korean presidential adviser offered a franker assessment.

From Washington Post Feb. 28, 2019

I would like to believe that this is a watershed moment, that the downfall of so many powerful men will curb others, that we will have franker conversations about what needs to change.

From Slate Nov. 30, 2017

Truly there is not a franker lady under the wheel of the sun; and by the body of my mother I swear there is nothing she can ask that I will not freely give.

From Saint Ursula Story of Ursula and Dream of Ursula by John Ruskin

In 2020 your sister published “Open Book,” which is one of the frankest celebrity memoirs I’ve read.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2025

In framing this as the frankest discussion of their marriage to date, they manage to get away with saying very little.

From Slate Jul. 14, 2020

Ellison’s closeness with Wright brings out some of his frankest early letters.

From The New Yorker Dec. 2, 2019

“This may be the frankest and most important presidential correspondence of this century,” he told the New York Times.

From Washington Post Aug. 23, 2018

He was naturally of a plastic temperament, however, and he lived amongst a set whose good pleasure it is to criticise all who belong to them with the very frankest of candor.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever




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