How to Use free market in a Sentence
free market
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Friedman put Chicago on the map as a fortress of the free market.
— Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024 -
There are tides of public opinion and the pull of the free market.
— Aj Willingham, CNN, 7 Mar. 2021 -
These fights don’t need to get worse — and the free market isn’t the solution.
— Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022 -
In a free market, the saying goes, high prices cure high prices.
— Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2022 -
As with the rest of the free market, the ultimate arbiters are the consumers, we the public.
— Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2022 -
Isn’t this the same group of folks who love to blather on about the wonders of the free market system?
— Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 May 2021 -
The 27-year-old language of the ban is based on the belief that the public is best served by free market rental rates.
— John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021 -
The fuel is paid for upon receipt and priced in the free market.
— Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021 -
As usual, the free market is way ahead of the government.
— Stephen Moore, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020 -
There was a hope that China would become more of a free market over time.
— Selina Wang, ABC News, 14 May 2024 -
In a free market system, agents and studios can say what crosses the line.
— Chloe Melas, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023 -
Roach said his argument isn’t about the culture wars, but about the free market.
— Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022 -
The Carson plan, by contrast, harnessed the power of the free market.
— Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020 -
Songwriters don’t get to sell their work in a free market.
— David Israelite, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2020 -
The free market was supposed to lower fares and give us more choices.
— Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023 -
The free market has plenty of grandiose ideas about how to fix our broken planet.
— Paul Ford, Wired, 27 Sep. 2021 -
But that sort of free market is what led the FDA to start weighing the costs and benefits of drugs in the first place during the early 1960s.
— Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021 -
Under Deng, the country embraced the free market and opened up to global trade.
— Laura He, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021 -
Both sides can agree that a free market is more efficient.
— How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2022 -
The money generated from the game was too great to just sit back and let the free market decide.
— Lz Granderson, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2020 -
In some sense, the crisis facing the U.S. fossil fuel sector comes from its flight too close to the sun of a free market.
— Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2020 -
Yass, the free market true believer, now owed the survival of much of his fortune to the U.S. government.
— Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 21 June 2022 -
China’s leadership is still steeped in Marxist thought and is willing to put the needs of the state over the dictates of a free market.
— Jennifer Conrad, Wired, 29 July 2021 -
In case after free-speech case, Kennedy showed the importance of tolerance in the free market of ideas.
— Ilya Shapiro, National Review, 1 Nov. 2020 -
So, yes, there’s a preference in the bill for the businesses that operate in the free market.
— Laura Hancock, cleveland, 19 June 2021 -
That leaves only one option: running down a contract and stepping out on to the free market.
— New York Times, 11 May 2022 -
And the not-a-Nobel award’s emphasis on the primacy of the free market has been damaging at times.
— Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2022 -
That’s how the free market works, especially when there is no salary cap in baseball.
— Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2021 -
Through antitrust actions, the government is opening the free market gates.
— Mark Weinstein, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024 -
The free market won’t magnanimously offer women a 20% raise.
— Amy Willard Cross, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
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