free agent
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For decades, the standard advice for getting ahead in your career was simple: Act like a free agent, changing employers for the best opportunities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Conte, who played for Juventus and Italy in a stellar career, is a free agent after leaving Napoli at the end of last season.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
And would they be able to fit soon-to-be free agent Tarik Skubal into their payroll?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Cristobal can look at something closer to a fully-formed athlete, the way an NFL general manager might pursue a free agent on the open market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
In Mendel’s experiments, every gene had behaved like an independent entity—a free agent.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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