freelance
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Miller is a freelance writer in Brooklyn, N.Y., who frequently writes about movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Professionally, she works as a freelance puppet builder supporting film and television.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Previously, Rachel worked as a freelance journalist based in Montana and video correspondent in Peru for Agence France-Presse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
I earn income from three different jobs: bartending, freelance consulting and teaching yoga.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Shane Puglisi’s Linkedln profile said he was a freelance photojournalist.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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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
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
A freebooter, named Franquet d'Arras, had, at the head of a band of about three hundred English freelances, held all the country-side in terror round about Lagny.
From Joan of Arc by Gower, Ronald Sutherland
She also freelanced from Cambodia, covering the Khmer Rouge war crimes trials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
She has freelanced for Barron’s and other publications.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
For all his talent, Williams freelanced too often last season in an effort to make big plays behind a leaky offensive line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
Ms. Taylor retired in 1989 but freelanced for several more years as a political reporter and moderator of the station’s “Meet the Press”-like program, “Newsmakers.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
I worked for newspapers and freelanced for magazines.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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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
Eventually, she quit the NGO and began freelancing for Reuters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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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