free thinker
Example Sentences
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This anthology left me humbled — and determined to double down on my commitment as a writer, a free thinker, a humanist.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
He stroked my ego a bit and called me a free thinker, but I wasn’t going to let flattery sway my opinion that all this was a waste of time.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2023
Written in 1779 by the German free thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it has been brought to the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater at the D.C.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2022
In recent years, he has increasingly alienated himself from the astronomical community, painting himself as a brave free thinker challenging the close-minded dogmas of the broader scientific world.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2021
Has not the attempt been made to transform him also into a free thinker, a philosophic enemy of the Bible, and, from this very cause, an enemy to slavery?
From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Mary L. (Mary Louise) Booth
