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Carney wrote on X earlier this week that "Jewish people must be able to worship safely. To live free, open, proud Jewish lives."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
As the series begins, the chief fracas involves Nina, an LPA mom who also owns a Pilates studio and teaches free exercise classes to the boys at the school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The app that people use to access the Muse AI agent topped Apple’s charts for free productivity apps, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
One glimpse of this can be seen in the Swedish exhibition, which notes that many free men and women owned weapons, but only a few truly saw themselves as warriors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Since somebody had filched the school map, we’d hoped to be free of that subject.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
For one, the period of freer trade that accompanied the creation of the WTO in 1995 has profoundly changed the world economy, and in particular raised the relative importance of China and other developing economies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
United's freer approach has been praised by the maverick Fernandes, who saw a boost in his output following Carrick's appointment last season and was subsequently crowned Premier League Player of the Season.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
He felt freer to work when operating outside of the United States.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
He walked into the bright morning, feeling lighter and freer than he had ever felt.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
It struck musicians and illustrators, YouTubers and Instagrammers, self-proclaimed anxious wrecks and the freest of spirits.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
The city has a long history of blending the freest of free markets with a strong social spirit.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
I had embraced their aims with the freest impulse I had ever known.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
"That was really clever," said Milanesi, arguing the arrangement frees Ternus from a role Cook has handled alone for years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
It frees a student from memorizing all formulas, such as pi to the fourth decimal, but not from knowing whether an answer is right, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
According to Riesenhuber, transferring a well-learned skill into the temporal cortex frees the prefrontal cortex to focus on new challenges, allowing existing knowledge to serve as the foundation for future learning.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
She caught glimpses of masked frees: huge, inhuman eyes staring at her unblinkingly.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
That, too, may feel inadequate and potentially perilous—would Clancy be freed in just a few years?
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Mason eventually petitioned for her freedom in court and was freed in 1856 along with several members of her family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Dix was a key adviser during the Himalayan rescue effort that successfully freed all 41 Indian workers trapped inside a collapsed under-construction road tunnel in 2023.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Once emergency funding has been freed up, what else is there to do but send thoughts and prayers?
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
It was good to have been able to help a living being in this place where friendship was forbidden, and even better to have freed a trapped creature.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
The tests show that AI ordering is freeing up workers and improving customer satisfaction, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
This is a practical example of how to save money on taxes while also freeing up funds to bolster your retirement nest egg.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
In Yemen's capital Sanaa, Houthi supporters celebrated the freeing of 210 prisoners held in areas that fell to the group and had spent up to eight years in jail.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
That’s because freeing hydrogen from its bond with oxygen in water requires an extraordinary amount of energy — and expensive equipment — making it cost prohibitive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
In adopting the term ‘theory’ the scientists were thus freeing themselves from the philosophers’ preoccupation with truth in so far as it implied knowledge of causes and of what Aristotelian philosophers called substances, or forms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
