Definition of FREE WILL

Examples of freewill in a Sentence

Adjective a freewill confession of guilt made by the suspect during police interrogation our office staff made a freewill offering for UNESCO Noun He argues that all humans have free will. all of the workers at the homeless shelter are unpaid and are there of their own free will

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective All, too, will take place without a live audience and include links for freewill donations to nonprofits supporting Cleveland-area musicians and musical programs during coronavirus. — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, "Cleveland Orchestra cellist Mark Kosower seeks to inspire, heal with ‘Bach for Humanity’," 2 June 2020 The free community event is sponsored by Spiritual Church of Escondido; freewill offering will be accepted. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Passion 4 K.I.D.S founders visit with royalty," 29 Aug. 2019 Admission for the event sponsored by the Friends of the Rancho Bernardo Library is free; freewill donations will be accepted for musicians. — Linda Mcintosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Local Marines receive scholarships from Kiwanis ... community events," 30 Apr. 2018 There is no charge for this concert; freewill donations for musicians are encouraged. — Linda Mcintosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Hand-to-Hand gives 39K in local grants," 9 Apr. 2018 The series’ third and final concert holds chamber works by French composers of Les Six. 4 p.m. Sunday, Southminster Presbyterian Church, 916 E. Central Road, Arlington Heights; freewill donation; 847-902-0733. — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, "Recommended Chicago-area classical music concerts," 1 June 2017 Freewill offerings will benefit the Georgetown Ministry Center, which aids service-resistant, chronically homeless individuals and advocates for the homeless. — Gerri Marmer, Washington Post, "Religion events from around the Washington area," 5 May 2017 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The question is really whether a brain is a slave to itself, or is there an opportunity for free will? — Ryan Prior, CNN, "How to harness brain science for a better life, explained by a neuroscientist," 30 Dec. 2020 This is forcing a profound reckoning with the limits of free will, American exceptionalism and technological utopianism—in short, with human powerlessness in the face of death. — Katy Butler, WSJ, "Covid Is Reshaping Death. And Maybe Life.," 16 Dec. 2020 Xinjiang authorities say all residents work of their own free will. — Washington Post, "Huawei tested AI software that could recognize Uighur minorities and alert police, report says," 8 Dec. 2020 Cornel West, who fuses an analysis of class and empire with his Christian faith in free will and the human spirit, calls for dismantling three systems: the police, Wall Street, the Pentagon. — Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, "Is America Trapped in a Caste System?," 25 Nov. 2020 Fortunately, many essential human characteristics, including free will, do not reduce to individual genes. — Adrian Woolfson, Washington Post, "With CRISPR, humans can create their own evolutionary future," 20 Nov. 2020 Those who seemingly never have a port on their laptop free will love the UltraSharp’s abundance of them. — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, "The best computer monitors of 2020," 20 Nov. 2020 In an e-mail to Quartz on Oct. 21, Genpact said the employees going to offices were choosing to do so of their own free will. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, "Genpact once again forced employees to come to office during the pandemic—for Facebook this time," 22 Oct. 2020 And now that Monica hasn’t been seen or hear from since being seen on that ATM security video five months ago, Sheila just wants to make sure her mother has disappeared of her own free will. — Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, "Daughter worried about mother who disappeared from Connecticut home six months ago," 6 Oct. 2020

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