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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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It was built through consistent communication, through honesty and through caring about each other's success.
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Spain has spent much of her career trying to fit in with the cool kids, limiting the depth and honesty of her commentary.
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Three extraordinary new books, published this year, shed light on the brilliance and complexity of Morrison’s life and work, and place her as an American eminence, a visionary who saw fiction as a means through which to recast her country’s story.
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France has emerged as the World Cup's benchmark team, showcasing unparalleled individual brilliance and collective chemistry.
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But in her concentration, Porsha fumbled her words, which made the Faithfuls, who were desperate for a crumb of evidence so early in the game, suspicious of her sincerity.
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Within a couple of hours, Wilkins’ replies to the post were flooded with accusations of favoritism, questioning the use of taxpayer funds to book her and mocking her sincerity about being chosen as a performer following high-profile exits from the event.
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The continental climate brings cooler summers and colder winters, a boon for wine lovers seeking aromatics and brightness over weight and ripeness.
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Lowering your phone’s brightness can actually help preserve your night vision.
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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 movement here is made from 274 components, with a focus on lightness, transparency, and volume.
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Ease, fluidity and lightness in terms of proportion and material — silk, linen and cotton.
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“Candor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/candor. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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