1
as in voluntarily
of one's own free will
I will freely give my life for my country
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2
as in easily
without difficulty
the horse broke the halter rope quite freely
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Recent Examples of freely
Urban Dog Bar, one of Nashville’s newest dog-friendly destinations, offers a spacious 5,000-square-foot indoor area and a massive 15,500-square-foot outdoor park where dogs can roam freely off-leash.
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch the personal computer revolution.
—ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
At most points, spectators could freely walk in front of riders.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
In healthy work environments, information flows freely, and people feel safe speaking up with ideas, concerns or feedback without fear of retaliation.
—Alora Bopray, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch the personal computer revolution.
—ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
At most points, spectators could freely walk in front of riders.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
In healthy work environments, information flows freely, and people feel safe speaking up with ideas, concerns or feedback without fear of retaliation.
—Alora Bopray, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for freely
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On another, the Internal Revenue Code stands ready with its expatriation tax regime—potentially ensnaring not only those who voluntarily renounce their citizenship but also those whose citizenship is stripped away.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The farm minister and a former prime minister reportedly met with Ishiba on Saturday night to urge him to resign voluntarily.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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The chain of landforms to the west of Kauai is so small that it was not easily spotted in the satellite images taken as Kiko roared across the Pacific toward Hawaii as a Category 4 hurricane.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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The real premium comes from organizational capability — leadership, culture, and systems that competitors can’t easily copy.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Some American companies, including Olaplex, have willingly removed the ingredient from their formulas.—
Keyaira Boone,
Essence,
5 Sep. 2025
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Hopper had also purchased three videos from a website of men willingly having their genitals removed, the BBC reported.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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What struck me the most was how effortlessly the hotel manages to be both elevated and comfortable.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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Her son, maybe six or seven years old, could effortlessly hitch himself up to the top of the park’s lampposts.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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But the conversation didn’t end smoothly, leaving tension in the air.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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This convenience explains why, if wallets can't integrate RWAs smoothly, tokenization will remain a niche pursuit.—
Jamie Elkaleh,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Two side handles make removing it from the oven easy, and it can even be carried from the stove to the table for seamless serving.—
Shea Simmons,
Southern Living,
4 Sep. 2025
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And that’s getting off easy, considering 10 wins is likely what AFC teams will need to qualify for the postseason.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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This announcement represents a major milestone in the software and hardware needed to efficiently process inference queries, disaggregating inference processing into two workloads with a GPU tailored for each in the case of long-context windows greater than one million tokens.—
Karl Freund,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The electric system is underperforming because utilities and energy companies don’t get rewarded for making the existing system operate more efficiently or adopting new technologies that could render outdated systems obsolete.—
Brian Deese,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Sep. 2025
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The system that would have calculated Brown’s risk score — or any defendant’s score — is not readily available to the public, but the Observer found a breakdown of the general formula through the foundation that helped develop Mecklenburg’s policies.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Sep. 2025
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At least one Johnson County city is supporting a push to make Spanish language voting materials more readily available, with more discussions in other cities underway.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Freely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freely. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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