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He’s wondering if McCoy is free to cut his hair right now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Take-Two executives have said customers should be free to choose what games they buy.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Each release is free and a little more capable than the last.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

It will include free year-abroad placements for UK university students and their European peers as well as cultural exchanges.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

He was sitting in a shelter, tied to a roof post, without weapons or pack; and even if he got free, the camp was heavily guarded.

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

"Hong Kong," she says, "should be a freer place".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

“Any credible path toward de-escalation and freer flows through Hormuz would ease one of the biggest risk premiums hanging over crude.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

He felt freer to work when operating outside of the United States.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

She flung the words at him, immediately feeling lighter and freer.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

It struck musicians and illustrators, YouTubers and Instagrammers, self-proclaimed anxious wrecks and the freest of spirits.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 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

It heralds “Ol’ Man River’s” heartbreak, the way enough time in Hollywood domesticates even the freest spirit into commercial relatability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

Technological advance required the freest possible pursuit of knowledge, so Holland became the leading publisher and bookseller in Europe, translating works written in other languages and permitting the publication of works proscribed elsewhere.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“It’s a bottoming-out,” he said, which frees the party to begin “rebuilding conversations.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The process can take around 10 minutes and frees her time for other tasks, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

That reaction ultimately frees cysteine that the cell can use.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Concerned by the threat of United's full-backs in space, the opposition may move over, which frees up space for team-mates to pass the ball into the midfielders in the centre of the pitch.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

“It can buy you a cook and a maid and someone to do all your work, which frees up time. That’s like getting an extra hour.”

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

Wong is already serving time for subversion and was due to be freed early next year when he was handed the latest charges, which he has pleaded guilty to earlier in September.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

He played his pipe, led the rats into the river and freed the town.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

Higher interest rates are the main culprit, but the silver lining is that the housing slowdown has freed up workers for other projects like data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Although the electrons were freed at different moments, their behavior remained connected through quantum correlations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

“They had freed themselves of the English just twenty years earlier. Why not us? Why not?”

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

"We believe the heavy 5G investment cycle is largely behind for Jio... freeing up significant cash flow," they said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

The 5G investment cycle is largely over for Jio, freeing up significant cash flow and improving the balance sheet rapidly, Nomura’s analysts said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

There’s something freeing about exorcising negativity through song that keeps people coming back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

For some, giving up a vehicle isn’t just about cutting one bill from the budget; it’s freeing up money for rent, savings and everything else, writes MarketWatch’s Venessa Wong.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

She’d even been to the Underworld; but Percy’s story about freeing the incarnation of death itself really creeped her out.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan


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