free pass
Example Sentences
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Is there something so odious about a reworked design that the only way to hustle it across the finish line is to give it a free pass?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Austria gets a free pass because it won last year, and is hosting this year's festivities.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Being pro-business doesn’t mean giving corporate bad actors a free pass to prey on the people who make their profits possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Members of the court warned they were not giving anyone a "free pass," and that the case was still ongoing and the public prosecutor had been notified.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
He will be the first elf welcomed within those walls, surrounded by those goblin hordes and given a free pass to walk among them.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
