voluntary

Malaysia insists all returnees agreed to voluntary repatriation from detention centres, where Myanmar says they had completed sentences for immigration offences.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten — who had authority to pursue criminal charges — cited New York’s voluntary intoxication law in explaining why he initially did not do so.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

She described Disney’s voluntary retirement program as “generous” to give “long-tenured executives agency and the opportunity to make their own decisions around whether the timing was right to leave.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

"While voluntary measures remain our preferred approach, we cannot rule out compulsory redundancies if the required savings are not achieved," they said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012

But no voluntaries!" said the Kammerjunker; "no voluntaries, dear friend!

From O. T. a Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

This letter finished, he went out and posted it with all the others he had written, and then passed the evening in listening to the organist practising grave anthems and voluntaries in the Cathedral.

From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

I thought the service would never end, or the organist's voluntaries, or the preacher's homily.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray

All Mr. Muller's love-making did not move her now as one note of Bluhm's voluntaries on the organ had done.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various