free-for-all
Example Sentences
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But they are not deploying it in a free-for-all; they are deploying it with the discipline of a sovereign-wealth fund.
From MarketWatch
His inspiration was not any architectural theory or school so much as the workaday landscape of Southern California itself, the brash free-for-all he had noticed as soon as he arrived in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times
The conference was smaller, with two divisions, instead of today’s free-for-all among 17 teams vying for the top two spots.
The dining hall had turned into a free-for-all of chaos.
From Literature
Its head Alun Jones said regulation has not kept up, creating "loopholes and anomalies", while one GP likened the current situation to a "free-for-all".
From BBC
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