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Parents who attended free cooking classes in Guernsey said they had new ideas and confidence to prepare healthy, affordable meals for their families.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Constituents and friends say they felt free to challenge Graham.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Williams, 24, was available after the Brooklyn Nets declined his team option of $6.25 million, making him an unrestricted free agent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
As of last week, the Navy had secretly been helping ships navigate a southerly route farther from Iran’s coast, apparently for free.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Feel free to take off your costume too.”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
But mainland investors are still streaming to Hong Kong, where regulations are relatively freer, hoping to trade US stocks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The majority dismissed Hamm as improvidently granted, sparing the life of the defendant, Joseph Smith, and rejecting Alabama’s request for freer rein to execute intellectually disabled people.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
But her long struggle against military rule has made her synonymous with hopes of a freer, more democratic future.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
More humility, better data and freer disagreements could bring back the central bank’s credibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
I was bigger and my hands were freer than his, so he conceded me the den.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Once El Daña and Oakley step on stage for the show, drag allows them to be their freest selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF seeks exposure to “the freest emerging markets, because we believe those are the places to find the next big growth stories,” Tolle said.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 17, 2025
Spain today is one of the freest countries in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
He says he plans to "forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth."
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
“I think an aeronaut is free. I think an aeronaut may be the freest of all humankind.”
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
Proponents of an LVT say that by shifting the tax burden away from homebuyers, it will encourage retirees and empty nesters to downsize and frees up housing for growing families.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The researchers propose that when the bonds break apart, the resulting increase in entropy, a measure of disorder, frees the atoms and makes melting easier.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
This frees Lodge Quai from having to fix a leaky factory roof in, say, Düsseldorf, and it allows the local company not only to optimize its expenses, but more importantly redeploy its locked-up capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Moore said at a news conference Sunday afternoon that the declaration frees up funds that can bring in more resources in the region.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
“It can buy you a cook and a maid and someone to do all your work, which frees up time. That’s like getting an extra hour.”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
Under Pochettino, the U.S. approach was defined by an aggressive pressing system and tactical fluidity, with the team building from a back-three structure that freed its wing backs to exploit overloads when pushing forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
After making his fifty off 34 balls, Buttler freed his arms, taking just 17 more deliveries to reach three figures.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The Kansas City Chiefs recently freed up more than $43 million in cap space by restructuring the contract of the quarterback Patrick Mahomes that way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
I became disabled in my 20s, which freed me from the caretaker role my family expected — and set me apart from them permanently.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
The warmth of his gaze freed Ella's tears.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
"I recently tested this out on a scene and the ability to visualize and immediately share the storyboard was creatively freeing," he added.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Legendary film-maker Martin Scorsese has stepped into the fierce debate over the rise of artificial intelligence in Hollywood by endorsing an AI tool that he says has been "creatively freeing" in the pre-production process.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
But by 2030, Jiang says, the company could have no net debt, finally freeing up all that money that had been spent on its past mistakes.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
For Thater, creating after the Eaton fire has been both challenging and freeing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
And I, slowly, delicately, went to work on Rufus, began to push him toward freeing a few more of them, perhaps several more of them—perhaps in his will, all of them.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
