freeborn

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Recent Examples of freeborn The site will also showcase regional heroes of the Underground Railroad, including the work of Smith, a freeborn woman with African American heritage who spent 21 years of her life as Stevens’ house manager and confidante (and, some speculate, his common-law wife). Tracy Schorn, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023 Robert—a man born in Africa, enslaved in America, and now a free farmer—and his freeborn African-American herbalist wife, Mary, had worked diligently to ensure this security for themselves and their children. Janet Barber, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2021 Phalanx warfare was so common in ancient Greece that most freeborn males took part in it many times. James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021
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  • On the ground floor, tribal flags from sovereign Indian nations, both domestic and international, hang.
    Chris Quintana, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, investment committees often default to sovereign credit ratings and currency risk assessments that systematically skew against low-income countries, regardless of actual sector performance.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • To have a chance at winning in November, a Democratic candidate will need to draw independent voters and sway on the fence Republicans, in addition rallying Democrats, Rottinghaus said.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Though most sightings can be identified as planes, balloons, drones and weather events, the independent group says more sophisticated scientific research is needed, along with efforts to remove the stigma of reporting UFOs (sorry, UAP).
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • Tony Xu, cofounder and CEO of food and grocery giant DoorDash, doesn’t sugar coat the company’s efforts, and challenges, developing autonomous delivery technologies.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Tirias Research Watching and waiting for the automotive market to transition to autonomous vehicles (AVs) has been a painful experience.
    Jim McGregor, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Those phrases, used among student protestors to voice support for a liberated Palestinian people, were viewed by some in the Jewish community as manifestations of hate.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Similar themes crop up in the opera: Four female astronauts board a spaceship in hope of preserving the human race on a new planet, only for their mission to be privatized halfway through the journey by a venture capitalist, their liberated lives suddenly jeopardized.
    Hugh Morris, New York Times, 25 July 2025
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  • This phenomenon is prevalent in stories of Fannie Berry, a freed woman known for her tales about the days of enslavement.
    Sarah Rex, JSTOR Daily, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • In the end, Sutton-Schulman won the Triangle Springs appeal, but Highmark classified L’s treatment at Menninger as two separate admissions.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Luna's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets was established in February 2025 and is a separate House Oversight subcommittee from the one that last held a hearing on UFOs in November.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Tim Hortons: Local business owner Naren Patel opened a new Tim Hortons coffeehouse and bakery in a Mt. Juliet convenience market earlier this year ahead of more freestanding locations in Middle Tennessee that include four in Wilson County.
    Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Those two competitors also use a semi-freestanding Y frame in comparison to Durston's fully freestanding X frame.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
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  • Administration officials heralded the law as liberation from the constant vulnerability of relying on chip-makers in Taiwan, a self-governing island only 100 miles off the Chinese coast that is claimed by Beijing.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing claims as its territory, is under growing pressure from China, which has not ruled out using force to seize control.
    Dan De Luce, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023

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