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Recent Examples of unfree
Some opposition figures pointed to future elections as a way to overturn the dictatorship, but the Trump regime had previously issued edicts that would make elections unfair and unfree.
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Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
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.
— Made By History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
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
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
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Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
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.
— Made By History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfree
Adjective
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So much of the success the Leafs will have this season — for better or worse — is dependent on that shot.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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And this model of access, dependent on negotiation and renegotiation and repeated discussions about individual items, is neither sustainable nor capable of delivering aid at the scale that is needed.—
Anna Halford,
Time,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Their speakers are unemployed or precariously employed and geographically displaced, subject either to forced immobility or migration.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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He is considered a subject-matter expert on India and South Asian affairs in his role at the Office of Net Assessment.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
14 Oct. 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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Like thousands of enslaved people, Harry Washington abandoned the plantation when the war began and fought for Great Britain.—
Peter Mendelsund,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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In Marx’s terms, enslaved workers actually represent variable capital in the production process.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Unfree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfree. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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