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Recent Examples of unfree
Until a few years ago, millions of Iranians repeatedly voted in the country’s mostly unfree elections, hoping that regime insiders could pave a path for reform.
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Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
His elections in 2018 and 2024 were widely denounced as fraudulent or unfree by the U.S., the European Union and many Latin American governments.
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Paul Vallas,
Twin Cities,
6 Jan. 2026
His brother, god of hunting and tracking, is caught in the cruel paradox of parole — somehow still unfree and searching for liberty and purpose, yearning for the seeming escape of his own car on the open road, always in danger of being hunted down himself.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
Their robust negations appeared to put both them and their American hosts on the right side of history, compared with writers in the unfree world of authoritarian regimes, who seemed to have been permanently tainted by lies, equivocations, and evasions.
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Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
His elections in 2018 and 2024 were widely denounced as fraudulent or unfree by the U.S., the European Union and many Latin American governments.
—
Paul Vallas,
Twin Cities,
6 Jan. 2026
His brother, god of hunting and tracking, is caught in the cruel paradox of parole — somehow still unfree and searching for liberty and purpose, yearning for the seeming escape of his own car on the open road, always in danger of being hunted down himself.
—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
Their robust negations appeared to put both them and their American hosts on the right side of history, compared with writers in the unfree world of authoritarian regimes, who seemed to have been permanently tainted by lies, equivocations, and evasions.
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Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfree
Adjective
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This is dependent on the base model specifications absorbing the pressure from the supply chain to maintain an acceptable margin.
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While other platforms looked at diversifying their revenue through subscriptions, Pinterest remains entirely dependent on ad revenue.
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The key difference is that rather than suggesting preset visuals, the AI Camera Assistant is ostensibly reacting to the scene, subject, and lighting to dynamically suggest the best alterations for that specific moment — that’s the AI of it all.
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What makes Dataland especially compelling is its use of nature as both subject and dataset.
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Burnout now consumes American physicians, who are overworked, nonautonomous and adrift without help.
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The absence of access for nonautonomous conferences like the American Athletic Conference has also been a point of contention.
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In 1643, Connecticut signed one of the first laws requiring local officials to assist in capturing enslaved runaways.
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Elizabeth Freeman, one of Massachusetts’s 5,000 enslaved people, was among those who decided to take her chance at freedom.
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“Unfree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfree. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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