frank
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I think it’s a lot more humane, to be quite frank.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
“The president and I have both been very frank about the many disagreements that we have and immigration is one of those places,” Mamdani said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The parliamentary commissioner for standards has been investigating whether Tice broke rules requiring MPs to be "open and frank in declaring any relevant interest" during debates in Parliament.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
To be frank, it sounds like you don’t like this man, and that is OK.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
“She expired without a sigh. How desolate it makes one to think of her frank cordial manners.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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
You are franker with her than with me, and you tell her a very different tale.”
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Passages like these are some of the frankest and most resonant I have read about what death does to the bereaved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
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
Velchaninoff remarked that as he put his hat on his bald head once more, he wore an expression of the simplest and frankest hope and delight.
From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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