How to Use free market in a Sentence

free market

noun
  • Hong Kong has a very liberal, free market economy in many ways.
    Mike Bird, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • That means there is no free market competition and this structure is often seen as a monopoly.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Feb. 2021
  • In some circles, the belief is that the free market can solve supply and demand problems that beset healthcare.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • As technology plays an ever-larger role in our economies, that will fracture big pieces of the global free market.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Hastening this plight, in his view, was the American right’s devotion to the free market.
    New York Times, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The rating systems are intended to turn parents into consumers and to justify a free market in schools.
    Diane Ravitch, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2021
  • By the principle of the free market Silicon Valley lives and dies by, virtual reality is a loser.
    Matthew Gault, Wired, 15 Feb. 2021
  • If so, and if the free market Texas legislature does not step in, consumers will face the outcome expected when a monopolist runs a market: much less service at much higher prices.
    Ed Hirs, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • China is effectively forcing other countries to adopt some of its own industrial policies, because a free market in which only one side plays by the rules isn’t so much a market as a sucker’s game.
    New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
  • While labels and artists who own their own recordings can negotiate with on-demand streaming services in a free market, publishers and songwriters are constrained by a web of regulations.
    Billboard, 18 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Because of our form of government, coupled with our free market, America has the world’s largest economy and a robust military, and American citizens are among the most generous people in the world.
    Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 4 July 2024
  • That $600 million is going to Eversource and UI because of decisions state government made to protect Dominion from innovation and free markets.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2024

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