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freelance

[free-lans, -lans] / ˈfriˌlæns, -ˈlæns /
ADJECTIVE
independent
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The student, who is also a freelance translator, has also found it hard to concentrate on lectures knowing he could be missing out on work opportunities.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Your relationships may also change during the luteal phase, Newson says - which is something freelance journalist Henrietta experiences.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Miller is a freelance writer in Brooklyn, N.Y., who frequently writes about movies.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

She has done some freelance and part-time gigs as a marketing and events coordinator, but has yet to find a full-time job despite sending out a steady stream of applications.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 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

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

“I’ve been pleasantly surprised,” says Kim, who freelances full time as a copywriter.

From Seattle Times Dec. 28, 2021

Wigham freelances for musical theater productions at local schools, where she has noticed a decline in trained musicians.

From Washington Times Jul. 2, 2017

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

The 50-year-old Chicano illustrator with more than a decade of experience as an independent artist had occasionally freelanced for IDW Publishing and Image Comics, but this was his biggest opportunity to date.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2024

I worked for newspapers and freelanced for magazines.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

Humanitarian groups see online work - particularly freelancing for clients abroad - as offering some of the best opportunities.

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

The fact that you’re earning $100,000 freelancing is extremely impressive.

From MarketWatch Mar. 16, 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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