How to Use free market in a Sentence
free market
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This is where the free market begins to crack.
—Gerard Scimeca, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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Maybe, the thinking went, the free market could help.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
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On the free market, the unit could fetch three thousand, easy.
—Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
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In a free market, the saying goes, high prices cure high prices.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2022
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But a large dose of the free market is what the post office needs most.
—The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
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The free market works quite well for elite talents, thank you very much.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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This is the paradox of profit in a free market.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 27 May 2026
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There are tides of public opinion and the pull of the free market.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 7 Mar. 2021
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Let the free market decide what happens to the site.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 10 Apr. 2026
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But people don’t want a free market with live music.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
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And the state, not the free market, served as midwife to the new world order.
—Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2018
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These fights don’t need to get worse — and the free market isn’t the solution.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
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The fuel is paid for upon receipt and priced in the free market.
—Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
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Castelli had presided over a market that was not a free market at all.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
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Friedman put Chicago on the map as a fortress of the free market.
—Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
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The free market was supposed to lower fares and give us more choices.
—Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
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There was a hope that China would become more of a free market over time.
—Selina Wang, ABC News, 14 May 2024
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The free market has plenty of grandiose ideas about how to fix our broken planet.
—Paul Ford, Wired, 27 Sep. 2021
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In a free market system, agents and studios can say what crosses the line.
—Chloe Melas, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
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And that used to mean being for the free market and small government, right?
—Fox News, 17 May 2018
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The problem is, in our free market, the best and brightest have many options.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Aug. 2017
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Roach said his argument isn’t about the culture wars, but about the free market.
—Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
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Are students better served when schools compete in a free market?
—April 19, NPR, 19 Apr. 2026
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And then third, the importance of free markets, free trade, low taxes, all that stuff.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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Isn’t this the same group of folks who love to blather on about the wonders of the free market system?
—Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 May 2021
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For years, this page has staunchly defended free markets.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
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The companies argue that the free market will handle any glut of oil.
—Randy Diamond, ExpressNews.com, 21 Apr. 2020
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Milei did a good job educating the public about the free market.
—Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
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And, as with any free market, demand can be expected to drive supply here, too.
—Charles Wayn, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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The democracy, the country that wants free markets, the country that wasn't to align with us.
—CBS News, 7 June 2026
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