freelance
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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
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“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
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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
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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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