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After the season, he signed with New York as a free agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The uncanny valley is live for consumption, for free, at No. 300 on the Roku Channel’s Live TV Guide.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026
Landslides, however, did block access to some villages but the experienced rescue teams worked tirelessly through the day to free those trapped under the rubble.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
They are living longer, have more free time and are in better shape than their parents and grandparents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
He was chewing mint and free as a bird and grinning because he wasn’t me.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Iran’s hard-liners appear to have a freer hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Ng noted that if Beijing "truly wants to accelerate" the internationalisation of China's yuan currency, "it will need to accept freer cross-border capital movement".
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
But her long struggle against military rule has made her synonymous with hopes of a freer, more democratic future.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
So that’s all quite new and it’s very exciting because it kind of makes you feel safer and freer to be more yourself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
As soon as I heard it, I felt looser, freer.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
The city has a long history of blending the freest of free markets with a strong social spirit.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Once El Daña and Oakley step on stage for the show, drag allows them to be their freest selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF seeks exposure to “the freest emerging markets, because we believe those are the places to find the next big growth stories,” Tolle said.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 17, 2025
Spain today is one of the freest countries in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
I had embraced their aims with the freest impulse I had ever known.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Viola Spolin, one of the great acting teachers of the 20th century, put it simply: “being part of the whole generates trust and frees the player for playing, the many then acting as one.”
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
According to Riesenhuber, transferring a well-learned skill into the temporal cortex frees the prefrontal cortex to focus on new challenges, allowing existing knowledge to serve as the foundation for future learning.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Proponents of an LVT say that by shifting the tax burden away from homebuyers, it will encourage retirees and empty nesters to downsize and frees up housing for growing families.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
This frees Lodge Quai from having to fix a leaky factory roof in, say, Düsseldorf, and it allows the local company not only to optimize its expenses, but more importantly redeploy its locked-up capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
He frees Boggs’s gun from his shoulder and slings the strap over his own.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Caruso, the former Los Angeles mayoral candidate, has defended their use saying they freed up city firefighters during the catastrophic firestorm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Selling the Lakers freed up other assets and collateral that Walter had pledged to finance the team purchase last year, a person familiar with the matter said—which might help the insurance remediation move more quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Last week, Burnham also ordered an "urgent" review to identify any grooming gang members who may be eligible to be freed from jail early.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Restaurants lucky enough to face freed asphalt push their patios past the curb.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Inside the complex, fallen office equipment had trapped some workers under desks and they needed to be freed by their co-workers.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
“There is something incredibly freeing about not knowing and being present,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
There is also an amazing collection of letters written primarily by Black parents to Union Army officials, asking for help freeing their children.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
While Max spent 17 years in prison, Anna built a reputation for freeing wrongfully convicted inmates, while Tom went to work for a fancy law firm.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Different solutions have been designed for those who may not benefit from a trip to A&E, freeing up finite resources for those who definitely would.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
My chest relaxes, freeing a breath of air I didn’t even know I was holding.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
