truthfully

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Recent Examples of truthfully One of the most effective ways of talking back to an oppressive force is by speaking truthfully, by letting your experience rise above the noise of those who would flatten you and your kind into easy categories. Literary Hub, 14 July 2026 As part of their plea agreements, they are required to testify truthfully in proceedings related to the case, the office said. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 29 June 2026 Plus the idea of wearing AI glasses and a tech-bro wrist accessory was, truthfully, a nonstarter. José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 24 June 2026 If a debtor refused to coöperate, Pitman might ingratiate himself, explaining, truthfully, that having the key sure would help him out, or that, without it, the lienholder would bundle the cost of making a new one into the price of getting the vehicle out of hock. Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026 And, truthfully, that’s a serious question mark. John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2026 But truthfully, everything Canada has done from the minute Jesse Marsch took over as head coach in 2024 was to prepare for a home World Cup. Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 17 June 2026 Rather, her sin was to recount truthfully to Congress the intelligence community’s strong assessment that Iran did not intend to build a nuclear weapon. Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026 Through their work, these remarkable young filmmakers remind us that the arts are not simply a means of expression, but a way of living truthfully and authentically in the world. Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truthfully
Adverb
  • 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
Adverb
  • 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
Adverb
  • 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
Adverb
  • 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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“Truthfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truthfully. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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