voluntary

Malaysia insists all returnees agreed to voluntary repatriation from detention centres, where Myanmar says they had completed sentences for immigration offences.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten — who had authority to pursue criminal charges — cited New York’s voluntary intoxication law in explaining why he initially did not do so.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Most street performers rely on voluntary payments, but experts say the line between performing for money and begging can blur.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The department is seeking a voluntary agreement with the university and will sue if it cannot reach one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

We’d heard rumors that service in the military was no longer voluntary, that everyone between the ages of twenty-two and forty had to serve—most of them in the army’s new Psi branch.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012

But no voluntaries!" said the Kammerjunker; "no voluntaries, dear friend!

From O. T. a Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

With these voluntaries Alexius opened communications, and was by their aid enabled to get accurate information of all that went on among the Latins.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

The organ voluntaries, strangely, I thought, were first Chopin's 'Funeral March,' second the 'Dead March' in 'Saul.'

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott

"The organist played as opening voluntaries the 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' Barnaby's 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' and Barnaby's 'Bridal March.'"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman