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Recent Examples of unfree
Labor leaders also stressed that as unfree people, contract workers did not come to the U.S. voluntarily; instead they were induced to migrate by capitalists.
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Made By History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
Having wrested some room to maneuver from the Supreme Court, the executive branch, and their national party, conservative Democrats disenfranchised blacks and many poorer white voters, repressed opposition parties, and imposed racially separate—and significantly unfree—civic spheres.
—Robert Mickey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2017
In 1854, for example, Charleston’s Washington Fire Company recorded paying unfree Black firefighters between $5.00 and $37.75 in a month.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
Because of their supply of unfree labor to fight fires, Southern leaders felt little need to fireproof their cities, or adopt the innovations in firefighting made possible by new technologies.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
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Made By History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
Having wrested some room to maneuver from the Supreme Court, the executive branch, and their national party, conservative Democrats disenfranchised blacks and many poorer white voters, repressed opposition parties, and imposed racially separate—and significantly unfree—civic spheres.
—Robert Mickey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2017
In 1854, for example, Charleston’s Washington Fire Company recorded paying unfree Black firefighters between $5.00 and $37.75 in a month.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
Because of their supply of unfree labor to fight fires, Southern leaders felt little need to fireproof their cities, or adopt the innovations in firefighting made possible by new technologies.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfree
Adjective
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Their livelihood and the products that come from their seeds are strongly dependent on weather and climate.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Regardless, the move from the planning stage to the construction stage was dependent on those three public agreements, though none of them amounted to anything unusual for a major project, city officials said during that evening's meeting of the Oconomowoc Plan Commission.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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An email from the player with no subject line and an attachment.—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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After nearly two decades of requiring all high school juniors to take the ACT, the Kentucky Department of Education plans to switch to the SAT, a college admissions exam that lacks a science section — a subject Kentucky students particularly struggle with.—
Krista Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Burnout now consumes American physicians, who are overworked, nonautonomous and adrift without help.—
Aaron Rothstein,
wsj.com,
3 Apr. 2023
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The absence of access for nonautonomous conferences like the American Athletic Conference has also been a point of contention.—
Matt Murschel,
orlandosentinel.com,
14 May 2021
Adjective
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In my research, looking at many of the rebellions of enslaved people across the Caribbean, the drum was always used in a ceremony just before.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
23 Aug. 2025
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Notwithstanding our being the descendants of enslaved people.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Unfree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfree. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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