frank
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And Prior was frank about that over the offseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
As for Burnham, Peskov is frank: "It's unlikely that anyone on the British political scene will have a different position to Keir Starmer on our bilateral relations."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Mr. Putin, meanwhile, has become surprisingly frank in signaling his wants and needs, however unrealistic they are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"He has been engaging in conversations with a wide, wide range of people," Kyle told Sky News broadcaster after having what he said was a "frank" conversation with Starmer on Friday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
That occasion also was memorable because of the remarks of a frank neighbor, who watched the blaze from his yard.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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
Few were franker about this fact than Micah Uetricht, associate editor for the leftist magazine Jacobin—one of the few publications identified as a Devumi customer.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2018
Never was a novel written with a franker or more deliberate purpose than that shown in For the Term of his Natural Life.
From Australian Writers by Byrne, Desmond
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
One of the frankest writing men we ever met is the editor of a Socialist newspaper.
From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Broun, Heywood
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