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freeloading

ADJECTIVE
parasitic
Synonyms


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If I'm being honest, two percent is not enough, and so two percent is freeloading.

From Barron's May 30, 2026

What Washington expects in return, he said, is that regional countries stop freeloading off American security.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

Some users in Korea on social media have said cagonjok are also freeloading electricity.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2025

Netflix registered its third consecutive quarter of faster subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023, closing out a comeback year that included a crackdown on freeloading viewers and price hikes.

From Seattle Times Apr. 15, 2024

I’d been in the same room with the ambassador every minute that he was in our house, and besides, that overstuffed, freeloading bureaucrat was too self-involved to ever commit murder.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson



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