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straightforward

[streyt-fawr-werd] / ˌstreɪtˈfɔr wərd /




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So when she sat down to write her third album, she thought it would be pretty straightforward.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

"The Secret Service's focus is straightforward: to ensure everyone attending the game can enjoy the game and have a safe experience, while we carry out our responsibility to protect the President of the United States."

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Her approach this year is simple and straightforward.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

There is a remarkably straightforward one, and the Journal’s photo editors inadvertently highlighted it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

But in the case of discovery we have a straightforward paradigm case—the case from which the whole language derives.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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