free choice
Example Sentences
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Thomas Jefferson once wrote that the government shouldn’t meddle with his neighbor’s free choice so long as “it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
With regard to predicting the level of support, the perception that nudges intruded upon free choice was the most important driver of non-acceptance, whereas the perception of effectiveness was the most salient driver of acceptance.
From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2024
“What I suspect is that they are sneaking in a free choice assumption,” Wiseman says.
From Scientific American • May 22, 2023
There is a growing sentiment on the continent that Africa should have a free choice in its relationships with the rest of the world.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2023
But free choice, she realised, was the one thing which was not permitted them; for her it was not a question of choice at all; it was a matter of controlled and unquestionable necessity.
From The Bigamist by Young, F.E. Mills