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President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski has been given free rein to make decisions up to this point and Middleton explained his relationship with the team executives in a response to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale.
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Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Losing Fed independence is like giving free rein to emotional, irrational decision making.
—Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
In recent weeks, California Governor Gavin Newsom has given his press office free rein to go full all-caps troll mode on X.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Take Snell’s 2023 Cy Young campaign, when the left-hander allowed base runners close to free rein.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
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Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Losing Fed independence is like giving free rein to emotional, irrational decision making.
—Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
In recent weeks, California Governor Gavin Newsom has given his press office free rein to go full all-caps troll mode on X.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Take Snell’s 2023 Cy Young campaign, when the left-hander allowed base runners close to free rein.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
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“Free rein.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20rein. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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