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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

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

Francis Bunker, a freelance and independent marine biologist, kept finding the tiny seaweed in samples he had collected on that survey.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

You’d find the freelance thugs pushing off for rebounds, and the A students, quietly showing off silky jump shots and then running back downcourt eyes down, trying not to look too pleased with themselves.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

“The Accountant 2” subtracts everything that worked about the 2016 original, a marvelous romp that starred Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, a neurodivergent numbers geek who freelances as an auditor and assassin.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2025

Cross, who occasionally freelances for The Seattle Times, first brought the idea of digitizing the magazine to John Vallier, curator of the UW Ethnomusicology Archives, in 2015.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2023

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

Wigham freelances for musical theater productions at local schools, where she has noticed a decline in trained musicians.

From Washington Times Jul. 2, 2017

A freebooter, named Franquet d'Arras, had, at the head of a band of about three hundred English freelances, held all the country-side in terror round about Lagny.

From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower

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

When B called me a few months before, I had just left teaching to try freelancing in pursuit of more time to write.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2025

Lelia is working again, but now only freelancing.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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