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
Dodgers left-hander Blake Snell, sitting next to soon-to-be free agent Tarik Skubal at their lockers in the aftermath of their team’s elimination from the National League Championship Series elimination, made a promise:
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
There’s no intermediate point in the process in which you confront the potential employer as a free agent, entitled to cut her own deal.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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