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frank

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And under Xi, Zhu's style of open, frank talk by officials has been replaced by a much more staid, closed-off approach.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

“It’s important to get that balance where you have time alone with your family and with your friends, where people feel like you can have a safe and frank exchange,” she added.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

That the memoir is so very frank stirs up trouble with her boyfriend, a much younger man.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Nat leaned back now and surveyed Kit with frank interest.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

They were franker, more kindly, better intentioned than the Eastern studio type, and besides they did not consider themselves superior.

From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser

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

We invariably encountered the frankest and most affable hospitality among them, and our arrival in a camp was always hailed by the joyful shouts of the whole tribe hurrying to meet us.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell




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