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freelance

[free-lans, -lans] / ˈfriˌlæns, -ˈlæns /
ADJECTIVE
independent
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There’s a tendency to think that, because one has had any success at all, be it a musical callback or a greenlit freelance piece or a short story selected for publication, that they know best.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

When I was a young freelance writer, I got a job at a Manhattan test-prep company, one of those boutique agencies that lets its wealthy customers find them through word of mouth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

"There's a significant shake-up happening here in game design terms," freelance game critic Emma Kent told me.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

A small team of likely freelance developers in Russia used Claude to build software intended to power autonomous "kamikaze" drones.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

“I used to hook her up with freelance work now and then. Did you know that?”

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

“The Accountant 2” subtracts everything that worked about the 2016 original, a marvelous romp that starred Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, a neurodivergent numbers geek who freelances as an auditor and assassin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

Now Ms. Woodland freelances for museums part time, and she’s able to do hands-on work with their collections, something she finds very fulfilling.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022

Even more dispiriting to the self-described workaholic who freelances in theater was that work was drying up as venues shut down.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021

In addition to the garden project, Montoya also wrote a children’s book, which Ballachino submitted to the publisher she freelances with.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2019

Mr. Sauer and Mr. Merriman were in England for the express purpose of discrediting Lord Milner, and behind these fierce political freelances was the astute brain of the Bond Master, Hofmeyr.

From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold

She began writing straight out of college, freelanced for years and eventually followed a path taken by many young Filipinos: joining a multinational in the country's booming outsourcing industry.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Prior to that, she led writing groups in juvenile halls across the Bay Area and freelanced in Cairo during the Egyptian revolution and Arab Spring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

She has freelanced for Barron’s and other publications.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025

For all his talent, Williams freelanced too often last season in an effort to make big plays behind a leaky offensive line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024

I worked for newspapers and freelanced for magazines.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

Now Mahran finds an escape and purpose freelancing to create mobile apps, websites and advertisements.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

His scammers are hustlers and apprentices with lots of free time on their hands, freelancing in an informal economy of deception held together by cellphones and copied scripts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

I created a profile on the freelancing website Upwork.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

When I was freelancing, though, the stress of making ends meet meant I was saying “yes” to a lot of projects and working well over 60 hours a week.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

I was freelancing then, working at home, and just keeping up with the few book cover assignments I’d taken on was a major effort.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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