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“A very, very frank analysis of a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses is a part of every executive search,” said Martha Heller, CEO of technology executive recruiting firm Heller Search Associates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I think it’s a lot more humane, to be quite frank.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

Now, a long-awaited independent investigation commissioned by Gov. Gavin Newsom provides the most frank and in-depth review of the Jan. 7, 2025 catastrophes, and points out multiple shortcomings in governmental planning and response.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

He looked at me, on the edge of emotion, his expression frank and humble.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

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

There are moments on “Glory” that are calculated to seem franker than other moments, but it’s as impersonal as ever.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2016

If they get the opportunity, they are far franker than you would expect.

From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

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

“The picture drawn in the poem,” says the article in question, “is that of an arch hypocrite, and the frankest of fools.”

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe