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And the free Olipop sodas American Express is giving out in a to-go bin at select Centurion lounges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The leader of the free world wasn’t all that different from us.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Over the next three decades, the Hong Kong Alliance called on authorities to accept responsibility for the crackdown, free dissidents and introduce democratic reform.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The lime converts arecoline into a free base form, which makes it easier for the body to absorb.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
At last, I thought, he has set me free to race my own race.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
But, for the 23-year-old, it is also a passage into a different, freer world - where she can find answers to forbidden questions.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He felt freer to work when operating outside of the United States.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Ng noted that if Beijing "truly wants to accelerate" the internationalisation of China's yuan currency, "it will need to accept freer cross-border capital movement".
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
More humility, better data and freer disagreements could bring back the central bank’s credibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
For some reason, I felt freer to be stupid and silly when he was there than when he was not.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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
Heti is one of the freest writers and thinkers I know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the twentieth century.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
"That was really clever," said Milanesi, arguing the arrangement frees Ternus from a role Cook has handled alone for years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
It frees a student from memorizing all formulas, such as pi to the fourth decimal, but not from knowing whether an answer is right, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Viola Spolin, one of the great acting teachers of the 20th century, put it simply: “being part of the whole generates trust and frees the player for playing, the many then acting as one.”
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
“If you’re willing to fight for me, to be my Champion during the months the competition will go on, I’ll see to it that my father frees you after five years.”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
That, too, may feel inadequate and potentially perilous—would Clancy be freed in just a few years?
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
A Los Angeles County man will soon be freed from state prison where he spent 12 years after being wrongfully convicted of shooting two men in Lynwood in 2013, prosecutors said Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Dix was a key adviser during the Himalayan rescue effort that successfully freed all 41 Indian workers trapped inside a collapsed under-construction road tunnel in 2023.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Once emergency funding has been freed up, what else is there to do but send thoughts and prayers?
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
It was good to have been able to help a living being in this place where friendship was forbidden, and even better to have freed a trapped creature.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Norris also said he suspected the number of extra prison spaces created from freeing up existing space within prisons would be "landing somewhere in the middle" of 200 and 900.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
That’s because freeing hydrogen from its bond with oxygen in water requires an extraordinary amount of energy — and expensive equipment — making it cost prohibitive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
There is also an amazing collection of letters written primarily by Black parents to Union Army officials, asking for help freeing their children.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
It is meant to be able to handle tasks such as pulling research or drafting documents, freeing up senior lawyers to focus on winning new business and advising clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
In 1953 he confessed: "I have never succeeded in freeing myself from a nagging prejudice against continental drift; in my geological bones, so to speak, I feel the hypothesis is a fantastic one."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
