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The company also reaffirmed its outlook for the full year, projecting an operating margin of about 5.5% of revenue and automotive free cash flow of roughly EUR1 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Meanwhile, the signing of England centre-back John Stones, 32, on a free transfer could scupper 28-year-old Argentina defender Cristian Romero's hopes of joining the Italian club from Tottenham.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Health care had long been a point of pride for Cuba's communist rulers, who were able to offer free care and highly subsidised medicines for all.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

LA28’s community ticket program made its first donation this week by partnering with the Rams to give 1,000 free tickets to 10 local nonprofits.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Even though we were now free, and life was returning to some kind of normality, this was the worst time of all for me because Peter’s letters just stopped coming.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

But mainland investors are still streaming to Hong Kong, where regulations are relatively freer, hoping to trade US stocks.

From Barron's Jul. 3, 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

“Her First American,” Segal’s best book, also draws closely from life, but its fictionalizing feels freer and brings out poignant elements of romance and tragicomedy.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 2026

Party noises hung in the air: loud music, the raised voices and high laughter of boys and girls, all of them looser and freer than they would be the next day.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

And all this is happening in the richest and freest country in the world, and in the middle of the twentieth century.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

Indeed, after Darragh Beirne and O'Donoghue frees and a Sam Callinan score, Kerry's lead was cut to one at 1-6 to 0-8.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

According to Riesenhuber, transferring a well-learned skill into the temporal cortex frees the prefrontal cortex to focus on new challenges, allowing existing knowledge to serve as the foundation for future learning.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 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

Moore said at a news conference Sunday afternoon that the declaration frees up funds that can bring in more resources in the region.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 21, 2026

At the happy ending of The Tempest, Prospero brings the king back together with his son, and finds Miranda’s true love, and punishes the bad duke, and frees Ariel, and becomes a duke himself again.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

“It freed a lot of things, in our personal and professional lives,” she added.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

After spending almost three months in jail for civil contempt of court, I was freed after receiving my source’s permission to cooperate with the government’s investigation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Cherneff: One letter that really stuck with me was written by a woman named Lucy Lee, who described being freed and immediately being told that her children could not go with her.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

The lockup expiration on Aug. 6 will add up to 911.5 million shares to the market, roughly doubling the amount that are freed to trade.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

As the bull started toward us, I ran down the towline, loosened the buckles, and freed all of the dogs.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

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

"There's more familiarity than there was even a year ago," he said, adding that this is freeing up creative teams to focus more on story and style.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

While Max spent 17 years in prison, Anna built a reputation for freeing wrongfully convicted inmates, while Tom went to work for a fancy law firm.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

We heard Freddie, but it was the sound of him breaking through brush again, freeing himself from a bush.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely




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