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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
This kind of candor has not gone unnoticed by collaborators like Dane, who notes that there is often a kinship among actors who started out in the business at an early age.
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Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
For all its candor about current stress, Goldman is ultimately making a bull case—grounded in specific structural shifts.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
10 June 2026
His brashness with a wink is a fun part of the package, but insight and candor are what make the best analysts.
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Andrew Marchand,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
None of his previous attempts at candor have garnered the same public response as the intimacy – and immediacy – of his online posts.
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Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for candor
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
For all its candor about current stress, Goldman is ultimately making a bull case—grounded in specific structural shifts.
—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
10 June 2026
His brashness with a wink is a fun part of the package, but insight and candor are what make the best analysts.
—
Andrew Marchand,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
None of his previous attempts at candor have garnered the same public response as the intimacy – and immediacy – of his online posts.
—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for candor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for candor
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Blunt honesty had clicked with a relentless desire for improvement, launching a professional partnership and personal friendship that greatly enriched the careers of both men and, in time, would meaningfully alter the course of Chelsea history.
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What drew him to the exchange wasn’t controversy, but honesty.
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Perhaps not even his cautious approach can shackle the brilliance of this squad.
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His individual brilliance translated to team success, as Manchester City won a continental treble (victories in the Premier League championship; the Football Association (FA) Cup, England’s annual knockout tournament; and the Champions League) for the first time.
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When an audience member posed a hypothetical choice between a flawed but distinctive film and a polished but unremarkable one, Leung said either would do, arguing that cinema’s goal was sincerity, in performance or in a director’s expression, rather than polish.
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Just when there are emotional moments of sincerity about healthcare denials causing bankruptcy and even death, the tone shifts with a joke about fan girls sending Mangione their underwear.
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Astronomers repeatedly attempted to fit subtle shifts in the brightness of T CrB to the few points of reliable historical data on offer, while accounting for fluctuations in the white dwarf's feeding rate.
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Green, in soft shades from sage to pistachio, is a new neutral that adds nice brightness to a spring wardrobe.
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Seydoux asks me in a moment of frankness.
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Her love for the city is palpable, imbued with her frankness, her fun, her queerness, and her history.
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The result is an incredible repository of vexations, bafflements, witticisms, and brilliancies.
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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.
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But where her labelmates routinely drape their songs in warm, dense fuzz, Babuka Black opts for clarity and directness.
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His filmmaking has a lovely, homespun directness.
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The collection expressed an idea of contemporary simplicity, built through precise proportions, evolved materials and a new visual lightness.
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Choose Furniture With Raised Legs McClain creates visual lightness by choosing seating that is raised up from the floor.
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“Candor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/candor. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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