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Example sentences for: upfront

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If we're going to be upfront about the meaninglessness of our messages, at least let's use the colorful "yadda yadda yadda " to replace excess verbiage instead of the tepid "blah blah blah ." Just think of the potential for the news media.
For a Reform candidate, he's surprisingly upfront about his pro-life plank, though "Cleaning Corruption Out of Government " is (more suitably) his No.
Ries suggested that defining "SBIR" upfront might help clinicians understand the recommendations better.
Addicted to quick work and upfront salaries, he quickly gravitated toward the lower road: countless crime serials, low-budget horror films, spaghetti Westerns, other multinational genre pictures of no distinction.
To energize laboratories with appropriate expertise to participate in this community-wide effort, I suggest that a special program be set up by one or more of the funding agencies so that laboratories undertaking the investigation of any particular protein receive a small grant upfront as a supplement to an existing grant.