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The electoral defeat of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary in April reminded the world that despite having rewritten the rules of the political game in his own favor, a strongman can lose, even in an unfree and unfair election.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
16 June 2026 There are many ways for a country to become unfree.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026 Other places had other forms of unfree or bonded labor.—Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026 Until a few years ago, millions of Iranians repeatedly voted in the country’s mostly unfree elections, hoping that regime insiders could pave a path for reform.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unfree