free hand
Example Sentences
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"So I tried to take a pretty free hand with it and kind of plow my own furrow."
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
Ms. Rodríguez doesn’t have an entirely free hand in the dictatorship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
In the prior regime, Sheridan had been given a free hand creatively and on spending, which Ellison and his new executive team had reportedly signaled might not continue in the same way.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025
EU policy has in effect given Aliyev "a free hand", says Eldar Mamedov, a former Latvian diplomat who served as foreign policy adviser to the European Parliament's Social Democrat group.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025
Koffi had sat up and taken his free hand, the one that wasn’t counting.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
