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Recent Examples of candidly
In an Instagram post on Wednesday, June 24, Samantha shared photos of her and Kyle's two kids and spoke candidly about how her life as a mom has changed since her husband's death.
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Georgia Slater,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
The axe came down swiftly and brutally, but, speaking candidly, Geoff Daniels, PBS’ Vice President, Programming & Development, was gracious about it, thanking the audience of mostly media industry people for their camaraderie.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
25 June 2026
In a joint interview with his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, the president candidly discussed aging.
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Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
25 June 2026
Players were allowed to offer multiple responses to each prompt and were granted anonymity in order to speak candidly.
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Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
Hearing Usha praise Vance’s ability to make nice may come as a surprise to political junkies who have watched Vance struggle to control his anger in public—something the vice president himself has written candidly about in the past.
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Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
17 June 2026
The social media influencer spoke candidly about her grief journey in a June 17 episode on Jay Shetty's podcast, marking her first interview since her son Trigg's drowning death last May.
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Melina Khan,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
Fencker met with White House lawyers and other Administration officials, and candidly discussed his grievances with Denmark and possible paths forward for Greenland and the United States.
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Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
John Stamos is speaking candidly about his experience with plastic surgery.
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Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 June 2026
Georgia Slater,
PEOPLE,
29 June 2026
The axe came down swiftly and brutally, but, speaking candidly, Geoff Daniels, PBS’ Vice President, Programming & Development, was gracious about it, thanking the audience of mostly media industry people for their camaraderie.
—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
25 June 2026
In a joint interview with his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, the president candidly discussed aging.
—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
25 June 2026
Players were allowed to offer multiple responses to each prompt and were granted anonymity in order to speak candidly.
—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
Hearing Usha praise Vance’s ability to make nice may come as a surprise to political junkies who have watched Vance struggle to control his anger in public—something the vice president himself has written candidly about in the past.
—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
17 June 2026
The social media influencer spoke candidly about her grief journey in a June 17 episode on Jay Shetty's podcast, marking her first interview since her son Trigg's drowning death last May.
—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
Fencker met with White House lawyers and other Administration officials, and candidly discussed his grievances with Denmark and possible paths forward for Greenland and the United States.
—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
John Stamos is speaking candidly about his experience with plastic surgery.
—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for candidly
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The big news is that the United States and Iran are no longer openly at war.
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When someone openly and continuously crosses your land for years, that use can gradually become a permanent legal right called a prescriptive easement.
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Professionals who communicate honestly, understand emotions, recognize their unique value, and consistently earn trust will thrive.
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Budget honestly for a setup that typically runs $500 to $2,000 before recurring feed and bedding costs.
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Open walls always beat closed clubs and quite frankly, are a lot more fun.
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That takes a great deal of knowledge, patience, and faith, frankly, to push through the challenges.
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Foley has been the one board member who has forthrightly stood up for oversight and accountability on every key issue.
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Coming off the ice, Malinin forthrightly congratulated the winner, Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan, as if to communicate that Shaidorov won the prize from his own efforts, not from Malinin’s failure.
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Pinney’s fantasies and visual metaphors are sometimes more poignant in concept than in execution, and a theme of Ray’s crude racist impulses is baldly inserted but left undeveloped.
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Premiering the first of eight episodes on Sunday, March 22, The Comeback’s shaggy, despairing, hilarious, and sometimes baldly sentimental third season spends its first two episodes running through all the horsemen of the Hollywood-pocalypse.
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That doesn’t mean that Holocaust educators are unreservedly enthusiastic about the new approach.
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The love songs that set its mood are unreservedly sexy and most of all funny — including that dirty ‘Wood’ — expressing genuine affection and delight.
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Now, fresh off one of the most straightforwardly terrible albums of the decade, here comes the Muse Mothership again.
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Perhaps the cleanest rebuke of noisy nativism would be for England to win, and, if Tuchel can take that final step that eluded Southgate, he’ll be immortalized, too—perhaps in a prestige miniseries of his own, and a more straightforwardly triumphal one at that.
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The Shape-Shifter Impostor syndrome rarely announces itself plainly.
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Thirteen years later, in a 1973 feature for Backpacker magazine, Saijo put it plainly.
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