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straightforwardly





ADVERB
squarely
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Jumping around in time, “Franz” frequently recasts straightforwardly staged scenes from his life into twisted, surreal parables while occasionally checking in on contemporary Prague and its Kafka tributes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Yet a less gimmicky video, straightforwardly listing the five things he said he had done in his first week as PM, got five million.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

"Dark matter could straightforwardly be two different particles, and the two different particles need to find each other in order to annihilate."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2026

And I wouldn’t bet too much money on the courts being as straightforwardly dismissive as they were the last time.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025

Let us now summarize how variations in these three factors—time of onset of food production, barriers to diffusion, and human population size—led straightforwardly to the observed intercontinental differences in the development of technology.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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