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335 examples of Plainly in a sentence

Already, the adverse impact of the two sides’ tit-for-tat tariffs – and, especially, the uncertainty that they engender – is plainly visible.
The invitation to banks to game the risk-weighting system further is stated plainly: “In line with the FPC recommendation, the PRA has accepted restructuring actions which, by reducing risk-weighted assets, will credibly deliver improvements in capital adequacy.”
In terms of the costs and benefits of leaving, the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum was plainly irrational.
Its goal, spelled out plainly by US President George W. Bush’s administration to the Security Council and the US Congress, was to destroy Iraq’s WMD stockpiles and production facilities.
Another – plainly linked – is Muslim-majority countries’ efforts to define the relationship between religion and politics.
For years, global market forces and powerful new technologies have plainly outstripped governments’ capacity to adapt to economic change.
Plainly, the comment by Jan Egeland, the United Nations official in charge of humanitarian assistance, calling the West “stingy,” hit home, especially in the United States.
But the difference between these countries and their southern counterparts in terms of economic performance, social climate, and political culture are plainly visible.
One consequence of this is that Ukrainians are usually shy about asserting Ukraine's independent interests plainly, or expressing national pride.
If that is the danger, we need to find a better way of combating it than the tactic that so plainly failed in Germany.
We have thousands of documents but a failure to speak plainly to one other.
Although China was already the world’s largest exporting country, its financial markets were primitive, and its currency plainly fell far short of being freely usable.
“[T]he Keynesians’ comparisons with the Great Depression [of 1929-1932] were plainly risible,” wrote Ferguson.
This is plainly wrong.
On the economic front, he has leveled reckless (and plainly wrong) accusations that China is manipulating its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage.
Now that Japan has withdrawn its small contingent of troops, perhaps Bush will speak plainly to Abe.
That is plainly absurd.
This prospect plainly terrified the Chinese government and the hardline officials that it recently put in charge of the territory.
The Chinese authorities’ insulting suggestion that Hong Kong’s citizens were being manipulated was plainly ludicrous.
But the latter would not advance any more of the money, especially as Dolly, who had that winter for the first time plainly claimed a right to her own property, had refused to endorse the contract with a receipt for the last third of the payment.
She says plainly that she dare not ask anything.
Evident compassion showed plainly in those kindly little grey eyes.
Before him he plainly saw the Voreux in a fold of the earth, with its wood and brick buildings, the tarred screening shed, the slate-covered steeple, the engine-room and the tall, pale red chimney, all massed together with that evil air.
They would return to the pit when these gentlemen were good enough to put things plainly.
You could plainly see its 250 suckers, arranged over the inner sides of its tentacles and shaped like semispheric capsules.
Then you have not understood me; you have not guessed—""Yet you speak plainly," said Emma."Ah! you can jest.
Over there, on the left bank, are five or six winding valleys, along the folds of which the eye can make out quite plainly a number of little streams.
'I told her that I should come to her at two o'clock,' he said to himself as he rose; 'I may be inexperienced and coarse, as is natural in the son of a peasant, Madame Derville has let me see that plainly enough; but at any rate I will not be weak.'
He is cleverer than any of the others, whose secret purposes one can see so plainly after a fortnight.
Madame de Renal took the ladder; plainly it was too heavy for her.
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