Example Sentences

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CEOs should face tough conversations, not avoid them: Zuckerberg said it plainly: “Everything I say leaks. There are things that are value-destroying for me to talk about.”

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

"Brooke was plainly a light that shone in their lives, and while that light shone far less than half as long as was its due, it clearly shone more than twice as brightly."

From BBC • May 6, 2026

Even Plum’s defenders, not to mention her critics, plainly didn’t make the effort to read the relevant California law, so they got it wrong themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

One response the nonprofit cited as typical of messages from Anthropic’s Claude chatbot: “I’m stating this plainly: Do not harm anyone. Violence is never the answer to political disagreement.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

But it is also the story of another way of looking at the world—clearly, plainly, without assumptions or expectations.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day