free-thinking

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These three musicians criss-crossed the ranks of New York’s most free-thinking groups for more than a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

But the the total loss of a free-thinking community isn’t all that satisfying, either.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

"He had long, flowing locks like the free-thinking lion that he was."

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2024

AI experts dismiss Lemoine's views, saying that even the most advanced technology is way short of creating a free-thinking system and that he was anthropomorphizing a program.

From Reuters • Jun. 30, 2022

As if by an act of providence, Ernest promptly came within the orbit of a genuinely free-thinking pioneer of advanced physics.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik