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Recent Examples of free handHathaway holds onto her belongings with her free hand.—Angel Saunders, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025 However, while the auditor has a relatively free hand to examine state agencies, Missouri law restricts the ability of the auditor to initiate audits of municipalities.—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025 An emergency declaration would allow him to tax imports with a relatively free hand.—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025 In the ring, a rider must stay mounted on the bull, using one hand to hold the rope, for eight seconds to qualify, with their free hand raised in the air.—Ellen Wulfhorst, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for free hand
In 2020, then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr authorized prosecutors to seek the death penalty against the Saenz brothers, but President Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, withdrew that authorization in November 2023.
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John Annese,
New York Daily News,
2 July 2025
To get this authorization, the operator has to prove that its vehicles:
Can operate while complying with state traffic laws.
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Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
In that case, which stemmed from President Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship, the Supreme Court limited the use of universal injunctions in cases with individuals as plaintiffs, but gave lower courts more latitude in cases brought by states.
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Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
1 July 2025
The times and dates given apply to mid-northern latitudes.
In traditional robots, a control system analyzes sensory data and tells the machine what to do.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 June 2025
Ranged across the top of the SoundLink Plus there is a strip of soft-touch controls for turning the speaker on and off, initiating Bluetooth pairing, syncing with other Bose speakers, as well as playing and pausing music, skipping tracks and adjusting volume levels.
Companies who wait until the economics are easy will find that the customers, the talent, and the licenses to operate have already gone elsewhere.
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Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
The Senate looks to lower the cost of prescription drugs, allow cities and towns to take control of liquor licenses away from the Legislature, establish fare-free regional transit authorities, and direct the state’s housing department to publish more data.
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