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Chicago Cubs fans’ boos were by far the most enthusiastic for the right fielder who’d departed their team in free agency this past winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Questions about his age and passing ability may have led teams to skip King during the draft in April, but the Panthers snatched him up in free agency immediately afterward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Liverpool were looking to strengthen their defence after Ibrahima Konate left the Reds to join Real Madrid on a free transfer.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The company also began pitching a free service to restaurants earlier this year that would pool reservations across platforms, so that restaurant staff no longer had to toggle among apps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
He was chewing mint and free as a bird and grinning because he wasn’t me.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Ng noted that if Beijing "truly wants to accelerate" the internationalisation of China's yuan currency, "it will need to accept freer cross-border capital movement".
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
But her long struggle against military rule has made her synonymous with hopes of a freer, more democratic future.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
So that’s all quite new and it’s very exciting because it kind of makes you feel safer and freer to be more yourself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Working on a Mac is freer and faster than on an iPad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
It made me wonder how the war was going to make us freer if you couldn’t read any paper you wanted any more.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Once El Daña and Oakley step on stage for the show, drag allows them to be their freest selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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
He says he plans to "forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth."
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
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
Viola Spolin, one of the great acting teachers of the 20th century, put it simply: “being part of the whole generates trust and frees the player for playing, the many then acting as one.”
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Indeed, after Darragh Beirne and O'Donoghue frees and a Sam Callinan score, Kerry's lead was cut to one at 1-6 to 0-8.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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
This frees Lodge Quai from having to fix a leaky factory roof in, say, Düsseldorf, and it allows the local company not only to optimize its expenses, but more importantly redeploy its locked-up capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
He frees Boggs’s gun from his shoulder and slings the strap over his own.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
He was freed after his conviction was overturned on procedural grounds, with the presiding judge also later ruled to have been biased.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
But by getting to France, Wales freed themselves from that history.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Together, though, one of them would inevitably be freed up on most plays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
He was initially projected to be freed in June 2028.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Max ran to get Nurse Beverly, who was soon freed along with Max’s parents.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
“There is something incredibly freeing about not knowing and being present,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
There is also an amazing collection of letters written primarily by Black parents to Union Army officials, asking for help freeing their children.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Already the world’s top oil exporter, it hopes to draw on unproven uranium ore deposits to meet energy needs at home, freeing up more of its oil production to boost exports and revenues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Different solutions have been designed for those who may not benefit from a trip to A&E, freeing up finite resources for those who definitely would.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“If they’re not, we lay in wait, catch whoever’s bringing them red-handed, and bring them down to the courthouse, after freeing the orphans. We stay in touch via messenger dactyl. Any questions?”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
