freelance
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Steinem first drew public notice when she was in her 20s and struggling to establish herself as a freelance writer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Over the past two years, rising prices have increased Jackson’s cost of living, while the market wage for freelance web designers has stayed the same.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
As a freelance writer based in the South, I immediately realized I needed to become obsessed with the details of this case and start reporting.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Rachael Jardine, a freelance journalist based in New Cross, told BBC London that trains on a nearby Overground track were continuing to pass despite the "thick black smoke".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
If a stable had no horses in a race, its contract jockeys were allowed to freelance for other barns.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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Now Ms. Woodland freelances for museums part time, and she’s able to do hands-on work with their collections, something she finds very fulfilling.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
In addition to the garden project, Montoya also wrote a children’s book, which Ballachino submitted to the publisher she freelances with.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
He freelances online articles and graphics for advertising and websites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2014
Meanwhile, in alternating chapters, Lovesey relates the travails of Mel Farran, a talented viola player who freelances for orchestras and other groups.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2013
A freebooter, named Franquet d'Arras, had, at the head of a band of about three hundred English freelances, held all the country-side in terror round about Lagny.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
She began writing straight out of college, freelanced for years and eventually followed a path taken by many young Filipinos: joining a multinational in the country's booming outsourcing industry.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
She also freelanced from Cambodia, covering the Khmer Rouge war crimes trials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
She has freelanced for Barron’s and other publications.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
Marcum retained her ambition to be a writer and freelanced for Southern California newspapers when she could.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
I worked for newspapers and freelanced for magazines.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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His scammers are hustlers and apprentices with lots of free time on their hands, freelancing in an informal economy of deception held together by cellphones and copied scripts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
That was what brought me to marketing myself as an “academic editor,” and an “admissions essay advisor,” on various freelancing websites last fall.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
When I was freelancing, though, the stress of making ends meet meant I was saying “yes” to a lot of projects and working well over 60 hours a week.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
Eventually, she quit the NGO and began freelancing for Reuters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
So the only advantage of working here as opposed to freelancing is that you don’t need a clientele or even a car.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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