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Recent Examples of fancy-freeSavoring that freshly churned treat is my last-ditch effort to make the footloose and fancy-free feelings of our salty, sandy beach vacation linger just a little longer.—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 7 June 2025 Read the full Taurus Daily Horoscope Gemini (May 21 - June 21)
Feeling light as a feather and fancy-free?—USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
This attempt to revisit the type of fanciful, footloose and fancy-twee storytelling that helped characterize that cultural moment is a big swing, and an even bigger miss.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
But sis, this vacation is your time to let go of all those titles and lean into being footloose and carefree.
Now Danny Rohl — unattached after quitting Sheffield Wednesday — has dropped out of contention too.
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Pheelz has a way of using unattached vocals to enhance his baseline production that provides additional melody — even to someone like Fireboy who seems to ooze ear worm vocal hooks.
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