frank
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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And under Xi, Zhu's style of open, frank talk by officials has been replaced by a much more staid, closed-off approach.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
It’s just one example of how the humble frank has been experiencing a cultural glow-up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
And Prior was frank about that over the offseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
But she disapproved of Mr. Pontelliers club, and she was frank enough to tell Edna so.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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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
Other nocturnal blossoms deploy scents like siren calls: The creamy whorls of the moonflower vine hint at vanilla and sunscreen, while the heavy bells of brugmansia are franker and muskier in aura, verging on narcotic.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
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
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
Sylvia and he chanced to be alone for a little while, and she genuinely lamented her departure—they had become franker friends in these later days.
From The Candidate A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
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
Would you say that the latest episode of Red Table Talk features the show’s frankest discussion of infidelity yet?
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 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
Even his fine-gentlemanism sat quite easily on him, and was displayed with the frankest good humour.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
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