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Bex and Faye, who have been friends for 10 years, said people who visited were "shocked" everything was free and they did not have to make a donation to do a swap.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The service is free for searches for trips in the next 60 days while subscribers can search for dates further out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Salary-cap circumvention first surfaced with Leonard during his free agency in 2019 after he led the Raptors to the NBA championship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth has acknowledged that failures to remand Levy in custody during court hearings in May and June 2025 left him free to commit further offences.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“But you belong in America, Nory Ryan. And you’ll bring something with you. My cures. My medicine. A gift to that young free country.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
“Any credible path toward de-escalation and freer flows through Hormuz would ease one of the biggest risk premiums hanging over crude.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
But mainland investors are still streaming to Hong Kong, where regulations are relatively freer, hoping to trade US stocks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The majority dismissed Hamm as improvidently granted, sparing the life of the defendant, Joseph Smith, and rejecting Alabama’s request for freer rein to execute intellectually disabled people.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
But her long struggle against military rule has made her synonymous with hopes of a freer, more democratic future.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
As more documents become declassified over the coming years, I will be freer to speak openly about my role during that dark period in our history.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
Once El Daña and Oakley step on stage for the show, drag allows them to be their freest selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
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
I had embraced their aims with the freest impulse I had ever known.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
According to Riesenhuber, transferring a well-learned skill into the temporal cortex frees the prefrontal cortex to focus on new challenges, allowing existing knowledge to serve as the foundation for future learning.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
This frees Lodge Quai from having to fix a leaky factory roof in, say, Düsseldorf, and it allows the local company not only to optimize its expenses, but more importantly redeploy its locked-up capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
For her, if you can reduce the amount of time you're exercising, it frees up more time for astronauts to do science and experiments "which could cause a whole range of breakthroughs."
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
This frees them to think longer term, placing smaller bets on companies whose payoff might not arrive immediately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Al frees his hand and pulls me tight to his side.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
He was freed after his conviction was overturned on procedural grounds, with the presiding judge also later ruled to have been biased.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
But by getting to France, Wales freed themselves from that history.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
He was initially projected to be freed in June 2028.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
After spending almost three months in jail for civil contempt of court, I was freed after receiving my source’s permission to cooperate with the government’s investigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The contradiction with the ideals of the American Revolution was part of it; some slaveholders freed their enslaved people afterward.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
“There is something incredibly freeing about not knowing and being present,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
Layla says she has always given herself a hard time for not "coming up to scratch" but that taking part in the research project has felt "validating and freeing".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
He snuck up behind Mom and slid one arm around her waist while the other went to work freeing a hot dog stick.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
