free market
Example Sentences
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But people don’t want a free market with live music.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
Armstrong, and others in the crypto world, say the free market should reign and that banks can simply pay higher interest rates to compete with stablecoins or get into the stablecoin business themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
So the advisory firms arose from a free market to offer them analysis.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026
And while Beijing funds these developments centrally, in the US it is a messy but productive free market free for all, which means trial and error on an epic scale.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
The fate of Scion Capital turned on these bets, but that fate was not, in the short run, determined by an open and free market.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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