Thesaurus results for ADMITTEDLY

admittedly

adverb

əd-ˈmi-təd-lē

Definition of admittedly

as in frankly

to tell the truth admittedly, I should not have lost my temper like that

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Recent Examples of admittedly In an admittedly small sample size of 31attempts, Lendeborg has made a whopping 15 of them. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 19 July 2026 The difference between his record at the Euros versus the World Cup, is admittedly strange, although perhaps inevitable for someone who has been an international manager for as long as Deschamps. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 15 July 2026 The thing is, the Royals are 21-26 at Kauffman Stadium, which admittedly is nothing to write home about. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2026 Even after the sub-par performance against Paraguay – admittedly, the South Americans’ physicality and aggression contributed to that – the fans’ belief never wavered. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 10 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for admittedly

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But frankly, those kinds of invitations are never all that special.

— Bill Springer, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
And that has largely been shown to be well, frankly not true.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026

Definition of frankly

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Leaders must honestly review past performance, confronting uncomfortable truths rather than defending old decisions.

— Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
The historian Eugen Weber wrote influentially of how peasants who spoke languages like Occitan, Breton, or Basque became—or, more honestly, were made—Frenchmen.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

Definition of honestly

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Cat Cohen would love to be special, just not too special — a protagonist but not someone who actually experiences too much drama.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 28 July 2026
That comes as a big surprise to those of us who know the system and have actually fought Medicaid fraud.

— Dean Lerner, Washington Post, 28 July 2026

Definition of actually

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But the one person who really set the whole endeavour in motion was Lenain’s beloved uncle Farid, a gay and HIV-positive man who passed away in 2013.

— Michael-Oliver Harding, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
If diversification were really the primary reason to own private equity, more capital would already be there for that reason alone.

— Carrie McCabe, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

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