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Best of all, its cordless design gives you free rein to vacuum all over the house without being tethered to an outlet.
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Clara McMahon, People.com, 29 June 2025
But this decision doesn’t give states free rein to regulate the internet.
—Meg Leta Jones, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
Activists, creative guilds and critics have worried that allowing the systems free rein could displace jobs and reduce the level of human involvement in art.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
Such an explicit carve-out in legal doctrine is striking but responds directly to claims made by litigants and political commentators of the dire economic consequences that could result were the president to have free rein over the Federal Reserve’s chairman.
—Claire B. Wofford, The Conversation, 13 June 2025
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Clara McMahon, People.com, 29 June 2025
But this decision doesn’t give states free rein to regulate the internet.
—Meg Leta Jones, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
Activists, creative guilds and critics have worried that allowing the systems free rein could displace jobs and reduce the level of human involvement in art.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
Such an explicit carve-out in legal doctrine is striking but responds directly to claims made by litigants and political commentators of the dire economic consequences that could result were the president to have free rein over the Federal Reserve’s chairman.
—Claire B. Wofford, The Conversation, 13 June 2025
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“Free rein.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20rein. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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