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“Kind of getting in the groove of things, understanding everything a lot better out there playing a lot more free, a lot more loose and looking more like myself to me,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
In the next free issue of my Let’s Analyze newsletter on Substack, I’ll reveal the company, explain why I’m buying more and share the price I’m targeting.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Under the terms of Friday’s pardon, he could be a free man by August 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
When an antimuon encounters a free electron, the two form a muonium atom with positive chemical potential.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
‘My comrade will escort you to the ship that will take you to England. And then you’ll be free.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
But, for the 23-year-old, it is also a passage into a different, freer world - where she can find answers to forbidden questions.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He felt freer to work when operating outside of the United States.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
A few years ago, Binance was all but blocked in the U.S., while it had a freer hand to operate in the EU.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
He said in September that the government shouldn’t be “in hock” to the bond market, signaling he would support freer spending.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Instead, I feel freer now that Gran’s shown me the door.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF seeks exposure to “the freest emerging markets, because we believe those are the places to find the next big growth stories,” Tolle said.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 17, 2025
Spain today is one of the freest countries in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
He says he plans to "forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth."
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
Heti is one of the freest writers and thinkers I know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
“I think an aeronaut is free. I think an aeronaut may be the freest of all humankind.”
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
That frees up experienced cyber workers to investigate more serious alerts that require professional judgment, he said: “The work doesn’t disappear; it moves up the stack.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Concerned by the threat of United's full-backs in space, the opposition may move over, which frees up space for team-mates to pass the ball into the midfielders in the centre of the pitch.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
"That was really clever," said Milanesi, arguing the arrangement frees Ternus from a role Cook has handled alone for years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Viola Spolin, one of the great acting teachers of the 20th century, put it simply: “being part of the whole generates trust and frees the player for playing, the many then acting as one.”
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
He frees the train of the gown from the hedge.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
That, too, may feel inadequate and potentially perilous—would Clancy be freed in just a few years?
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
A Los Angeles County man will soon be freed from state prison where he spent 12 years after being wrongfully convicted of shooting two men in Lynwood in 2013, prosecutors said Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Dix was a key adviser during the Himalayan rescue effort that successfully freed all 41 Indian workers trapped inside a collapsed under-construction road tunnel in 2023.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Once emergency funding has been freed up, what else is there to do but send thoughts and prayers?
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
But this time, freed of her mantle, Pocahontas wins easily.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Over here on the savory side, I’m equally evangelical about freeing stuffing from Thanksgiving.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Norris said he suspected the number of extra prison spaces created from freeing up existing space within prisons would be "landing somewhere in the middle" of 200 and 900.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“There is something incredibly freeing about not knowing and being present,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
There is also an amazing collection of letters written primarily by Black parents to Union Army officials, asking for help freeing their children.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Some of these planters led the way in freeing Cuban slaves.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
