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Roadside signs advertise firewood, free kittens and raw milk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

“I just saw him on Facebook giving away free oak trees, and here we are,” Khalil said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

I read such stories aloud and adhered to commanding officers’ warnings to keep “notes to the boat” free of any references to stress at home, lest we lower troop morale.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

In the next free issue of my Let’s Analyze newsletter on Substack, I’ll reveal the company, explain why I’m buying more and share the price I’m targeting.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

When I saw where she was headed, I wrenched my arm free.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"Hong Kong," she says, "should be a freer place".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Iran’s hard-liners appear to have a freer hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

He felt freer to work when operating outside of the United States.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Ng noted that if Beijing "truly wants to accelerate" the internationalisation of China's yuan currency, "it will need to accept freer cross-border capital movement".

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

For some reason, I felt freer to be stupid and silly when he was there than when he was not.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

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

Technological advance required the freest possible pursuit of knowledge, so Holland became the leading publisher and bookseller in Europe, translating works written in other languages and permitting the publication of works proscribed elsewhere.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Concerned by the threat of United's full-backs in space, the opposition may move over, which frees up space for team-mates to pass the ball into the midfielders in the centre of the pitch.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Viola Spolin, one of the great acting teachers of the 20th century, put it simply: “being part of the whole generates trust and frees the player for playing, the many then acting as one.”

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

At the happy ending of The Tempest, Prospero brings the king back together with his son, and finds Miranda’s true love, and punishes the bad duke, and frees Ariel, and becomes a duke himself again.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

That, too, may feel inadequate and potentially perilous—would Clancy be freed in just a few years?

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

A Los Angeles County man will soon be freed from state prison where he spent 12 years after being wrongfully convicted of shooting two men in Lynwood in 2013, prosecutors said Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Dix was a key adviser during the Himalayan rescue effort that successfully freed all 41 Indian workers trapped inside a collapsed under-construction road tunnel in 2023.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Once emergency funding has been freed up, what else is there to do but send thoughts and prayers?

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

When they were finally freed, after a series of slave rebellions, their new masters were poverty, illiteracy, and lack of economic opportunity.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

In Yemen's capital Sanaa, Houthi supporters celebrated the freeing of 210 prisoners held in areas that fell to the group and had spent up to eight years in jail.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Norris also said he suspected the number of extra prison spaces created from freeing up existing space within prisons would be "landing somewhere in the middle" of 200 and 900.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

In 2010, he filed a habeas petition to challenge his detention with assistance from the Innocence Center, a San Diego-based nonprofit law firm dedicated to freeing people who have been wrongly convicted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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

Clinton thought that freeing the patriots’ slaves would weaken their armies and the American will to fight.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis