outright

Example Sentences

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Dealers paid for the merchandise outright and sold it at prices set by the company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Among those, reorganization or expansion is more likely than outright job losses, according to the study from Alex Martin Richmond, labor economist at the AI research and deployment company.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

That, however, was offset some by wholesale food inputs printing an outright decline of 0.3% on the month.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

This compound, called guanidinoethylbenzylamino imidazopyridine acetate, works by preventing the growth of bacteria like Porphyromonas gingivalis rather than killing them outright.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

The notion that the cascading events in France bore any relation to the American Revolution struck Adams as outright lunacy.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis