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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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So yes, Mary might have remained unmarried without George.—
Margaret Heidenry,
Vanity Fair,
24 Dec. 2025
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But Jo, the aspiring writer, is at the center of the narrative, as the sister trying to imagine a life outside of what is expected of her as a young, unmarried woman.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Parents,
22 Dec. 2025
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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Plus, the unattached back piece looks clunky, and the tongue doesn’t read.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2026
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The tractor apparently didn't rolled, but the unattached tanker tumbled some distance away.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
3 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Larry was born in New York City in 1944 to an unwed teenage mother, who gave him up for adoption at 9 months old.—
Reeves Wiedeman,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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There, the Catholic Church once ran homes for unwed mothers.—
Greg Dixon,
NPR,
31 Dec. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Fancy-free.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancy-free. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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