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Recent Examples of fancy-free
Savoring 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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancy-free
Adjective
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The city has more unmarried women than men, with a ratio of about 93 men for every 100 women.—
Jordan Green,
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
9 Feb. 2026
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In Nepal, married girls are 10 times more likely to be out of school than their unmarried peers, and more than a quarter of women with no education were married before the age of 15 compared to only 2 percent of women with higher education.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
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But sis, this vacation is your time to let go of all those titles and lean into being footloose and carefree.—
Brittany Vickers,
Essence,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Currently unattached, Catherine — who once dated Dan Aykroyd — is planning to ''fall in love, get married and have children.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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Plus, the unattached back piece looks clunky, and the tongue doesn’t read.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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He was born to an unwed teenage mom in Greenville, South Carolina, during the Jim Crow era but rose to become a civil rights icon and a groundbreaking politician who mounted two electrifying runs for the presidency in the 1980s.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Fancy-free.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancy-free. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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