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freelance

[free-lans, -lans] / ˈfriˌlæns, -ˈlæns /
ADJECTIVE
independent
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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

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

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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