freelance
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"He's basically acting too much like a comedian to be a presenter," the freelance culture journalist tells BBC News.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Michael Sincere is a freelance financial writer and the author of several books, including “Understanding Stocks” and “Understanding Options.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
There’s a tendency to think that, because one has had any success at all, be it a musical callback or a greenlit freelance piece or a short story selected for publication, that they know best.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
Jerry Heasley, a Texas car collector and freelance automotive journalist, convinced Tesla in 2025 to refund the $50,000 deposit he had made in 2017 for a garden-variety Roadster, according to documents viewed by the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
You’d find the freelance thugs pushing off for rebounds, and the A students, quietly showing off silky jump shots and then running back downcourt eyes down, trying not to look too pleased with themselves.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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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
I suppose the little glazed office was the sentry-box in the old days, where mendicants got their doles and tall freelances from Germany applied for a situation.
From Aliens by William McFee
Yet she’s always freelanced through her business, Pizzagirllex, and doesn’t intend to stop now.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
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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It was the logo for the freelancing website Fiverr.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
After a career spanning decades, with senior corporate roles in fashion, and a period of freelancing, 52-year-old Stacey Duguid decided to find "one last job".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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
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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