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And under Xi, Zhu's style of open, frank talk by officials has been replaced by a much more staid, closed-off approach.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

And I appreciate the frank and forgiving light the play sheds on long-term marriage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

He still hadn’t officially announced his varsity boat assignments, but he was frank: “The sophomore crew has been a deep disappointment to me.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Temptingly, he explained that “the theater, behind the scenes, has an emotional freemasonry of its own, certainly franker and arguably wholesomer than the stiffness of suburban society outside.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

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

Maybe it would open the door for a franker conversation about his functionality that he is as yet too ashamed to broach?

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2021

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

There is freer, franker discussion of many things that their parents would scarcely have dared mention, yet I feel sure the moral tone is distinctly higher.

From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker

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

Good cousin," said she, in her frankest manner, "I confess: I did suspect—for an instant.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black