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freelance

[free-lans, -lans] / ˈfriˌlæns, -ˈlæns /
ADJECTIVE
independent
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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

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

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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