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[kair-free] / ˈkɛərˌfri /


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While the sun is blazing overhead, I keep the sat phone tucked in my back pocket and play the role of carefree traveler, riding jauntily around in Land Rovers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

I loved the carefree optimism and enduring sense of ambition that seemed more alive on the Pacific Ocean than it ever had been in me back home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The carefree, sweat-drenched timelessness of Madonna’s new music couldn’t help but scratch against a very timely problem: Everything’s really bad, and finding space to let yourself forget that is increasingly difficult.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

It could have been in 2023, but his team were too carefree until it was too late.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Victor looked once more at the photograph of the two very different faces—the tall, serious boy and the carefree smile of the younger one.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke




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