voluntary

Every voluntary movement depends on successful communication between the nervous system and the muscles.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026

Instead, Brazil produced a voluntary "roadmap" with proposals for phasing out fossil fuels that each country can tailor to their circumstances.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Much of the group’s production of standards, voluntary but widely followed sets of specs, is about as dry as you’d expect.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026

“There is then no way to get the challenged ballots segregated. As a result, the relief the United States sought and needed is no longer available — rendering voluntary dismissal necessary.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

By the time Cicero reaches his peroration, he has asked something in the order of fifty questions to Catiline—each designed to make his failure to go into voluntary banishment look bizarre and unnatural.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012

Her organ voluntaries at the annual conventions evince a master's skill and delight all who listen.

From Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York by Frances W. Graham

Piano voluntaries, preludes, offertories, and postludes for religious services and Sunday schools. © 30Jul28; A1084933.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Contemporary organists, in passing, are well represented by Kate Westrop, who has published four short voluntaries for organ.

From Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson

The number of mariners in the saide fleete were above 8000, of slaves 2088, of souldiers 20,000—besides noblemen and gentlemen voluntaries; of great cast pieces, 2600.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd