freedom of speech

noun phrase

: the legal right to express one's opinions freely

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Among these are freedom of speech and academic freedom, freedom from personal force and violence, and freedom of movement. Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2025 Ultimately, Congress approved 12 amendments – ensuring rights from freedom of speech to protection from cruel and unusual punishment – and sent them to the states for ratification. Donald Nieman, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025 Chiles’s lawyers argued that because her approach only involves talk therapy, Colorado’s law limits her freedom of speech by preventing her from providing it. Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2025 By claiming to protect freedom of speech, Wilkerson helped launch a war against it. Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for freedom of speech

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“Freedom of speech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freedom%20of%20speech. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

Legal Definition

freedom of speech

: the right to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content and subject only to reasonable limitations (as the power of the government to avoid a clear and present danger) especially as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution see also free speech compare censorship, prior restraint
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