free hand

Example Sentences

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Investors shouldn’t draw their lessons from the relatively free hand government allowed today’s internet giants, from Google and Facebook to Amazon and Netflix, which began as startups and grew into titans of the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

"So I tried to take a pretty free hand with it and kind of plow my own furrow."

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

The Thai air force has had a free hand bombing targets inside Cambodia, which has limited air defences and no air force of its own to speak of.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

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

She slipped her free hand over his and squeezed it back.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack