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"When I speak, I sound like a free stater, but the voice in my head is really northern."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
As the series begins, the chief fracas involves Nina, an LPA mom who also owns a Pilates studio and teaches free exercise classes to the boys at the school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The app that people use to access the Muse AI agent topped Apple’s charts for free productivity apps, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
One glimpse of this can be seen in the Swedish exhibition, which notes that many free men and women owned weapons, but only a few truly saw themselves as warriors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
How swiftly his souls begin to drift free!
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Under WTO rules developing economies are entitled to preferential treatment that was intended to give them the time and flexibility to adjust to freer trade with more advanced countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
To give this freer approach some direction, United appear to have established a set of shared tactical principles and concepts.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
He felt freer to work when operating outside of the United States.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
As more documents become declassified over the coming years, I will be freer to speak openly about my role during that dark period in our history.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
The city has a long history of blending the freest of free markets with a strong social spirit.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
“I think an aeronaut is free. I think an aeronaut may be the freest of all humankind.”
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
The ruling released Thursday also frees up federal funding that already had been approved but not distributed to homeless service organizations in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
"That was really clever," said Milanesi, arguing the arrangement frees Ternus from a role Cook has handled alone for years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Like vultures, they’d been eating with their frees, and it didn’t look like they’d been feasting on Monster Donuts.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
That, too, may feel inadequate and potentially perilous—would Clancy be freed in just a few years?
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Mason eventually petitioned for her freedom in court and was freed in 1856 along with several members of her family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Dix was a key adviser during the Himalayan rescue effort that successfully freed all 41 Indian workers trapped inside a collapsed under-construction road tunnel in 2023.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Once emergency funding has been freed up, what else is there to do but send thoughts and prayers?
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
In a proclamation, the British governor general of Virginia, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, announced that slaves or indentured servants who left their owners to fight with the British would be freed.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
The tests show that AI ordering is freeing up workers and improving customer satisfaction, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
This is a practical example of how to save money on taxes while also freeing up funds to bolster your retirement nest egg.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
In Yemen's capital Sanaa, Houthi supporters celebrated the freeing of 210 prisoners held in areas that fell to the group and had spent up to eight years in jail.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
In 2010, he filed a habeas petition to challenge his detention with assistance from the Innocence Center, a San Diego-based nonprofit law firm dedicated to freeing people who have been wrongly convicted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The witch would have cured the injury by now, but would probably not come after her until freeing Bahumat, since Kendra had such a big head start.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
