freelance
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Earlier this month, Pangram flagged a small passage from a draft I had submitted to an editor at one of the other publications where I freelance.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Gemma, who is freelance, took a few days off work after Frankie's death, with the support of her "incredibly kind" client.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The student, who is also a freelance translator, has also found it hard to concentrate on lectures knowing he could be missing out on work opportunities.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Michael Sincere is a freelance financial writer and researcher and the author of several books including “Understanding Stocks,” “Understanding Options” and “Help Your Child Build Wealth.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
If a stable had no horses in a race, its contract jockeys were allowed to freelance for other barns.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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Now Ms. Woodland freelances for museums part time, and she’s able to do hands-on work with their collections, something she finds very fulfilling.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
“I’ve been pleasantly surprised,” says Kim, who freelances full time as a copywriter.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
Even more dispiriting to the self-described workaholic who freelances in theater was that work was drying up as venues shut down.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021
In addition to the garden project, Montoya also wrote a children’s book, which Ballachino submitted to the publisher she freelances with.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
I suppose the little glazed office was the sentry-box in the old days, where mendicants got their doles and tall freelances from Germany applied for a situation.
From Aliens by William McFee
She began writing straight out of college, freelanced for years and eventually followed a path taken by many young Filipinos: joining a multinational in the country's booming outsourcing industry.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Prior to that, she led writing groups in juvenile halls across the Bay Area and freelanced in Cairo during the Egyptian revolution and Arab Spring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
She has freelanced for Barron’s and other publications.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
The 50-year-old Chicano illustrator with more than a decade of experience as an independent artist had occasionally freelanced for IDW Publishing and Image Comics, but this was his biggest opportunity to date.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
I worked for newspapers and freelanced for magazines.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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His scammers are hustlers and apprentices with lots of free time on their hands, freelancing in an informal economy of deception held together by cellphones and copied scripts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
That was what brought me to marketing myself as an “academic editor,” and an “admissions essay advisor,” on various freelancing websites last fall.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
The fact that you’re earning $100,000 freelancing is extremely impressive.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
Eventually, she quit the NGO and began freelancing for Reuters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
Dandy took what work he could find, setting pins in a bowling alley and freelancing as a handyman.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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