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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unguardedly
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Pimentel argued the school failed to intervene despite students openly discussing the security guard's behavior.—
Peter D'Oench,
CBS News,
12 June 2026 -
That includes making the connection between gender-balanced leadership and business results explicit, ensuring women have a seat at the table in core decision-making roles, and sharing progress openly with employees, investors, and prospective hires.—
Liz Elting,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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In the piece, which dropped on June 12, the model candidly wrote about dating as a single mom in New York City.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
12 June 2026
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Bird, 45, spoke candidly about her breakup from Rapinoe, 40, after nearly 10 years together for her Women's Health cover released on Tuesday, June 9.—
Natasha Dye,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
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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.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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My job, bluntly, was to spy, but to do it in a way that wasn’t baldly obvious either.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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That doesn’t mean that Holocaust educators are unreservedly enthusiastic about the new approach.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Feb. 2026
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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.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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The logo-shooting, circus-passing, shape-shifting revelation who was once arguably the most famous basketball player in the world has become rude, entitled and, frankly, not all that fun.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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The American Revolution was, at heart, frankly and undeniably secularist.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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The possibilities felt endless and, honestly, overwhelming.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
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That story of American exceptionalism deserves to be told honestly and proudly.—
Kathy Szeliga,
Baltimore Sun,
8 June 2026
Adverb
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What that means is barely explained in the show’s opening arc, which is more straightforwardly rendered than the increasingly surreal final episodes, yet already a strange work rife with symbolism and abstract visual storytelling.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
12 June 2026
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Another was more straightforwardly hopeful, expressing a wish to see Iran progress in the tournament and a belief that success on the pitch might, however tentatively, cut across political divisions.—
Shirvin Zeinalzadeh,
The Conversation,
11 June 2026
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Foley has been the one board member who has forthrightly stood up for oversight and accountability on every key issue.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Unguardedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unguardedly. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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