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freelance

[free-lans, -lans] / ˈfriˌlæns, -ˈlæns /
ADJECTIVE
independent
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Six months ago, when a BBC freelance journalist visited the al-Mawasi kitchen, horses and carts were being used to take pots of food to the camps.

From BBC

Afterward, with the help of remaining friends, he slunk off to the U.S. in 1876, where he taught in Massachusetts for a while, then took up as a freelance newspaper writer in Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Dingfelder is a freelance science journalist and author of “Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory and Imagination.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Like John le Carré, he creates his own jargon: safe houses are “coops,” spycraft is “artifice,” freelance agents are “units” and deep-cover moles are “termites.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I supported myself as a freelance designer before I got married, but after marriage, Francis’s career took off quickly and made my earnings dispensable.

From The Wall Street Journal