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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

Michael Sincere is a freelance financial writer and researcher and the author of several books including “Understanding Stocks,” “Understanding Options” and “Help Your Child Build Wealth.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Professionally, she works as a freelance puppet builder supporting film and television.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

“We’re young people in New York, I think we’re all just kind of in this rough economy,” said Lee, a freelance graphic designer who rents an apartment in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Lori was working as a freelance artist specializing in fantasy, illustrating calendars and game boards and book jackets.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

“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

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

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

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

Another way to make a change is to look around your company for other opportunities outside of your specific role, whether it’s part-time, freelancing or contracting.

From MarketWatch Mar. 4, 2026

She worked as a speech therapist for children, mostly freelancing in the public schools and then part-time at a speech and hearing clinic downtown.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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