level with

phrasal verb

leveled with or levelled with; leveling with or levelling with; levels with
informal
: to speak honestly to (someone)
He never leveled with his parents about the accident.
Level with me. Why did you do it?

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But the White House has demonstrated an unusual comfort level with flouting the normal budgeting process. Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025 Some players have disappointed in their new homes, but three players in particular are performing at an extremely high level with their new teams. Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025 For example, an AI assistant may show which documents were retrieved from a knowledge base to generate an answer, cite time stamps and internal sources, indicate confidence levels with visual cues, and offer a fallback when the model is unsure or the input is ambiguous. Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025 Bieber now pulls level with The Rolling Stones and Sam Smith on the all-time rankings, both of whom also have eight chart-toppers. Thomas Smith, Billboard, 25 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for level with

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“Level with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/level%20with. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.

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