freethinker

Example Sentences

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Over time, Fairhope became a haven for freethinkers, writers, and artists.

From Slate • May 4, 2026

The place was populated by Marxists and anarchists, “churchmen and agnostics, freethinkers, Darwinists and spiritualists … and dress reform cranks.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

Repeated self-assertions of rebellion from these figures does not change the basic fact that they are, in reality, the opposite of freethinkers, rebels, or any of the other self-aggrandizing terms they may apply to themselves.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2022

“Pepe does not have the baggage here that he does in the 'real world,’ and I like working with utopians and optimistic freethinkers.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2021

Bentley is thus, as his choice of name indicates, prepared to meet the freethinkers on common ground at least when it comes to witchcraft, while defending the established Church.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton