free-thinking

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These three musicians criss-crossed the ranks of New York’s most free-thinking groups for more than a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

While many stayed, a major contingent wound up migrating to California, a more free-thinking place with the forgiving climate, dramatic landscapes, willing clients and booming economy to help turn their Oklahoma dreams into reality.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

Stree 2, a horror-comedy about a mysterious woman battling a monster who abducts free-thinking women, was the year's second-biggest hit, playing in cinemas for months.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024

AI experts dismiss Lemoine's views, saying that even the most advanced technology is way short of creating a free-thinking system and that he was anthropomorphizing a program.

From Reuters • Jun. 30, 2022

As if by an act of providence, Ernest promptly came within the orbit of a genuinely free-thinking pioneer of advanced physics.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik