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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?
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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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While church policies emphasized that unmarried women had the right to keep their children and the children had a right to remain with their mothers, staff often ignored this guidance and worked closely with adoption agencies, researchers found.
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Women can bear arms, although unmarried ones traditionally display them on a diamond (known as a lozenge) or oval shape, rather than a shield.
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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.
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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.
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Finally, showering within two hours of coming indoors can help wash away any unattached ticks.
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Three personnel are seen lifting De Freitas and shifting her over the edge of the bridge to a narrow landing, as a rope lies on the ground, seemingly unattached to her.
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Social media profiles indicate that he was unwed at the time of his death and did not have any children.
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Clark-Flory’s was a memoir, My Mother’s Daughter, about a DNA test connecting her with her sister, who her mom placed for adoption as a teenager at a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s.
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“Fancy-free.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancy-free. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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