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freelance

[free-lans, -lans] / ˈfriˌlæns, -ˈlæns /
ADJECTIVE
independent
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For Gurr, content creation is a professional skill that organisations increasingly need, whether someone runs their own business, works in-house, joins an agency or works freelance across multiple clients.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

A small team of likely freelance developers in Russia used Claude to build software intended to power autonomous "kamikaze" drones.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

You can do this by taking up some freelance work or volunteering.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 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

“The Accountant 2” subtracts everything that worked about the 2016 original, a marvelous romp that starred Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, a neurodivergent numbers geek who freelances as an auditor and assassin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

Cross, who occasionally freelances for The Seattle Times, first brought the idea of digitizing the magazine to John Vallier, curator of the UW Ethnomusicology Archives, in 2015.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

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

Even more dispiriting to the self-described workaholic who freelances in theater was that work was drying up as venues shut down.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021

Mr. Sauer and Mr. Merriman were in England for the express purpose of discrediting Lord Milner, and behind these fierce political freelances was the astute brain of the Bond Master, Hofmeyr.

From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold

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

Prior to that, she led writing groups in juvenile halls across the Bay Area and freelanced in Cairo during the Egyptian revolution and Arab Spring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

She has freelanced for Barron’s and other publications.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025

Walkers, though, freelanced the design into a smaller form, closer to the size of a potato chip, which they introduced with the help of a Sikh Elvis impersonator in the late 1980s.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

I worked for newspapers and freelanced for magazines.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

Now Mahran finds an escape and purpose freelancing to create mobile apps, websites and advertisements.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

I was freelancing then, working at home, and just keeping up with the few book cover assignments I’d taken on was a major effort.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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