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Take-Two executives have said customers should be free to choose what games they buy.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Mostly the book rattles on in a free style, with Mr. Coben telling personal stories about his life that tie into his practices as a writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Rutz described the first minute of free fall as uneventful but said tragedy struck soon after they deployed their parachutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
The government said free train passes would be available for 18-year-olds to visit EU countries by themselves or with up to five friends.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
He plucks out a blade of grass with his free hand and spins it between the pads of his thumb and index finger.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
"Hong Kong," she says, "should be a freer place".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“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
He felt freer to work when operating outside of the United States.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
A few years ago, Binance was all but blocked in the U.S., while it had a freer hand to operate in the EU.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
It made me wonder how the war was going to make us freer if you couldn’t read any paper you wanted any more.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
It struck musicians and illustrators, YouTubers and Instagrammers, self-proclaimed anxious wrecks and the freest of spirits.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
“I think an aeronaut is free. I think an aeronaut may be the freest of all humankind.”
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
“It’s a bottoming-out,” he said, which frees the party to begin “rebuilding conversations.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
The process can take around 10 minutes and frees her time for other tasks, she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
That reaction ultimately frees cysteine that the cell can use.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
That frees up experienced cyber workers to investigate more serious alerts that require professional judgment, he said: “The work doesn’t disappear; it moves up the stack.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
More precisely, they don’t have that mental valet in their unconscious that frees them up to concentrate on what really matters.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
"They freed up space for Nygren and Baur. It was a really positive 30 minutes."
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
He played his pipe, led the rats into the river and freed the town.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
A court will decide on Thursday whether he should be freed or held in custody pending trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
During this process, the laser's electric field drives the freed electron away from its parent atom before bringing it back.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
But a family of people who were later freed said, “None did more valiant service, both by advice and actual soliciting for funds than their true friend and sympathizer, Paul Jennings.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
"We believe the heavy 5G investment cycle is largely behind for Jio... freeing up significant cash flow," they said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
There’s something freeing about exorcising negativity through song that keeps people coming back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
For some, giving up a vehicle isn’t just about cutting one bill from the budget; it’s freeing up money for rent, savings and everything else, writes MarketWatch’s Venessa Wong.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
The first minister argued consolidation would reduce bureaucracy while freeing up more time and capacity to improve patient care.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Have you tried talking to anyone about freeing the camps yet?”
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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