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While 70% of 2024-25 Year 6 leavers nationally could on average perform a safe self-rescue, only half of children from schools with the highest level of free meal eligibility could do so.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Arcuri said he expects Micron’s earnings per share to stay above $160 in 2029, and he predicted that the company could see more than $450 billion in cumulative free cash flow through 2028.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Home-bound before the therapy, she emerged from it free of the pain crises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Even the defence sector – which has taken measures to prevent espionage – still struggles to source materials, and technologies that are China free, or as cheap.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
My hesitation cost me the element of surprise as he spotted me and redoubled his efforts to free himself.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
He felt freer to work when operating outside of the United States.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
One relic of Hong Kong’s freer days is how fast and easy it remains to establish a business there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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
So that’s all quite new and it’s very exciting because it kind of makes you feel safer and freer to be more yourself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
A time before our present freedom, and so much freer!
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
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
The researchers propose that when the bonds break apart, the resulting increase in entropy, a measure of disorder, frees the atoms and makes melting easier.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 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
Al frees his hand and pulls me tight to his side.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
The people of South Memphis have suffered through years of pollution from factories in Boxtown, founded by freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The newly freed power is expected to keep the spacecraft's three remaining instruments operating for at least one additional year.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Knox and Sollecito spent nearly four years in prison during the initial investigation and murder trial before the two were freed by an appeals court and then ultimately acquitted by Italy’s highest court in 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Those serving less serious sentences could be freed after a third of their time, rather than half.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
It freed the Indians from the shortcomings of the Greek system of thought—and their rejection of zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
“There is something incredibly freeing about not knowing and being present,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
"We are freeing up forces through investing in technology, including a national facial recognition system for police, so they can spend more time on the frontline - visible in communities and tackling crime."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
Already the world’s top oil exporter, it hopes to draw on unproven uranium ore deposits to meet energy needs at home, freeing up more of its oil production to boost exports and revenues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
She’d even been to the Underworld; but Percy’s story about freeing the incarnation of death itself really creeped her out.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
