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Recent Examples of openhearted For May 1966’s expansive Pet Sounds, Wilson and lyricist Tony Asher created a song cycle documenting a passage from youthful innocence to mournful adulthood that the composer contrasted with delicately sophisticated yet openhearted orchestrations. Barry Walters, Billboard, 11 June 2025 While many world leaders have moved to shut their doors to migrants and abandon the care of the poor, Pope Francis stood for openhearted acceptance, a position that resonated with churchgoers as well as some of those who had never gone to Mass. Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 7 May 2025 Yet for all its shortcomings, Megalopolis is unabashedly openhearted, delivering an earnest plea to envision a better future. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024 Keep It Like a Secret (1999) Built To Spill’s fourth album fuses together the dreamy, openhearted songwriting of There’s Nothing Wrong With Love with the exacting studio graft and inspired guitar architecture of Perfect From Now On. Al Shipley, SPIN, 21 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for openhearted
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Adjective
  • The Baldwins have been a public lightning rod with their outspoken political views and social-media controversies.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In the September 1967 school board election, voters replaced two incumbent members with candidates who were outspoken opponents of the Oregon Plan.
    Time, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images While the Fever continue to wait for Clark's return, one of her teammates has spoken out with honest words about the superstar guard.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • This is a man with no filter, a coach who's honest to a fault.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The stand-up comedian has previously been candid about her experience with postpartum depression.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Blair, who’s hilariously candid in her interviews, showed up late on set and refused to don the same makeup from the first movie.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The son of LeBron James, Bronny has heard the nepotism criticisms ever since getting a shot at the NBA, and to be quite frank, some of that has some validity to it.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In the interview, Clegg offered frank remarks on an array of topics related to his six years at Meta.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Openhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/openhearted. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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