How to Use free speech in a Sentence
free speech
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Do your part to support free speech.
—Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
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Stanford has free speech zones where protests can take place.
—Jeffrey Koseff, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
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The play asks if there should be limits to free speech, and if so, why?
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2022
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Kirk's death was an attack on free speech itself.
—Alex Rosado, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
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Here’s how the Supreme Court got the big free speech stuff right.
—Fox News, 8 July 2024
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Could the location of the free speech zones change?
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
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Our position on free speech is clear.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2026
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And the court has been very protective of free speech rights.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
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That’s what free speech and democracy is all about.
—Scott Maxwell, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2026
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Doxxing is just a form of stupid bullying, not free speech.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2026
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His words, 'Without free speech, there is no such thing as truth.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
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Carlson, for his part, argued for free speech.
—Stephanie Murray, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
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So the question was whether this law then restricts her free speech rights.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
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The risks extend beyond free speech.
—Jason M. Blazakis, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
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What is the state of free speech in America?
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
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People have called for free speech at the Berlinale.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2026
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This is less about free speech than the exercise of power.
—Cate Charron, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
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Those are the ones whose free speech rights would be violated by a ban.
—David Pogue, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
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But De Niro then advised him that free speech is no longer free.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
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The free speech argument stinks.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
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Chaffetz tied the issue to free speech and safety.
—Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price , Preston Mizell, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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No one spends $44 billion to profess their love for free speech.
—Bybradley Tusk, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
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This blue state's latest attack on free speech is awful and sneaky, too.
—FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
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Choosing silence also cedes our right to free speech.
—Jenna Norton, STAT, 12 Mar. 2026
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Rocky’s legal team has filed a motion to dismiss the case on free speech grounds.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Under the guise of counter-speech being free speech, the chorus rolled on.
—Justin Vallejo, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
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The spokesperson also said the school believes in free speech.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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All my critics, feel free to attack me because that's what free speech is all about.
—Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 3 May 2022
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The justices agreed that the law raises free speech concerns, but didn’t strike it down.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 1 June 2026
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When the very logic of speech must shift in order for people to be heard, is that still free speech?
—Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
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