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as in honesty
the free expression of one's true feelings and opinions
an interview in which the members of the rock band speak with candor about their recent squabbling
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as in brilliance
the quality or state of having or giving off light
the desert sun shone down on the intrepid travelers with fiery candor
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Recent Examples of candor
Why was that level of candor important to you?
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Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
Passions run as high as style, and candor and fervor blend with humor, to endow anecdotes and reflections with pride and purpose along with mourning and indignation.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Many love to have the carefree candor of the vox populi intrude in celebrity circles where prohibitive media training and wellness blather pass for personality.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
This Court finds that Respondent’s lack of candor on his I-485 was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025
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Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
Passions run as high as style, and candor and fervor blend with humor, to endow anecdotes and reflections with pride and purpose along with mourning and indignation.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Many love to have the carefree candor of the vox populi intrude in celebrity circles where prohibitive media training and wellness blather pass for personality.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
This Court finds that Respondent’s lack of candor on his I-485 was not an oversight by an uninformed, uneducated applicant.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for candor
Noun
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Her honesty about the emotional toll of illness also landed powerfully.—
Emily Cegielski,
Flow Space,
10 Oct. 2025
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Lala’s journey of self-discovery is told with honesty, transparency, and urgency, giving voice to the emotions and choices that many young people and students often carry in silence.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Buffett and Munger’s brilliance is undeniable, but their example also shows what not to do.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Oct. 2025
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This whole event shows how Nobel history is shaped not only by brilliance but also by timing, politics, and the personal dynamics of those involved.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The earnestness and sincerity that characterized so much music from the late ’90s were overtaken by the sneering rage of nu metal.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Sep. 2025
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And yet, Lightfoot’s stubborn purity is surely why listeners recognize his sincerity in memorializing such a tragic event.—
John U. Bacon,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2025
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So, astronomers have come up with a compromise regarding the geometry of the sun's illumination angle on Venus' disk versus its distance from Earth to determine the time of Venus' greatest brilliancy.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Family circles will have wrapped themselves in the holy pleasures of the great occasion, and everywhere the grand old holiday will have been introduced with all the majesty and brilliancy which clings around the hallowed name of Christmas.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
23 Dec. 2024
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The recording of that release as depicted in the documentary is the balancing light to the overwhelming dark Osbourne experienced in his later years, a series of illnesses, hospitalizations, frustrations and ceaseless pain shown with unblinking frankness.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2025
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Collier, who was injured during the playoff series, read from a prepared statement that shocked everyone watching—if not for its contents, for its frankness.—
Emma Hinchliffe,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Furthermore, the constellation brightness would drown out faint celestial objects and limit astronomical observations.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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Of course, the film is most notable for — spoiler — Roberts’s death at the end, and her palpable absence in the final scenes speaks to the brightness of her presence in the movie’s earlier parts.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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Pace was central to everything good about Forest, who were set up to hit opposition with explosive speed and directness on the counter-attack through players such as Anthony Elanga and Callum Hudson-Odoi.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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In films like that, the cultural commentary comes more from metaphor than with the bluntness and directness of The Purge.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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Nowhere was this more evident than in the crisp shirting, recalling the shirts Coco herself wore, which brought a lightness and purity not seen in recent collections.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
7 Oct. 2025
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The performance sunglass versions, which use Zeiss lenses, will be priced at roughly double many Cutler & Gross acetate models, but the lightness, strength, and precision of the materials are well worth the investment.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Candor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/candor. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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