freeborn

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Recent Examples of freeborn The site will also showcase regional heroes of the Underground Railroad, including the work of Smith, a freeborn woman with African American heritage who spent 21 years of her life as Stevens’ house manager and confidante (and, some speculate, his common-law wife). Tracy Schorn, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023 Some thralls were born into slavery because both of their parents were enslaved, or a freeborn man who had impregnated their enslaved mother declined to acknowledge the child. Neil Price, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2020 The early republican army was one of freeborn citizens, and even after the Marian reforms which opened up the army to the proletariat the Roman legions were draw from the citizenry. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2013 Phalanx warfare was so common in ancient Greece that most freeborn males took part in it many times. James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021 Robert—a man born in Africa, enslaved in America, and now a free farmer—and his freeborn African-American herbalist wife, Mary, had worked diligently to ensure this security for themselves and their children. Janet Barber, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2021
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  • Saudi sovereign wealth funds have taken large stakes in American businesses while also looking at sports as well.
    Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Last year, BlackRock's head of bitcoin and crypto said sovereign wealth funds are showing interest in bitcoin alongside wild speculation that Qatar's sovereign wealth fund was exploring buying bitcoin.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • What makes a random merger of two independent organisms into a stable, lasting partnership?
    Molly Herring, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Diamondback Energy Another Mizuho analyst, Nitin Kumar, is bullish on Diamondback Energy (FANG), an independent oil and natural gas company that is focused on reserves in the Permian Basin.
    TipRanks.com Staff, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2025
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  • Trump has expressed an interest in making Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, part of the United States.
    Fox News, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • President Donald Trump has reiterated his desire to buy Greenland, and refused to rule out using military or economic coercion to achieve his goal of controlling the autonomous territory of Denmark. .
    Juhohn Lee, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2025
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  • And now that legions of fans have gotten to see the film, Grande and Erivo are feeling liberated, ready to answer the remaining burning questions about the production.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The wounds from discovering torture chambers and mass graves of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in the liberated territories were still fresh.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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  • Prior to leaving office, Biden also advanced a separate tobacco regulation, one that would set maximum nicotine levels for combustible cigarettes and effectively ban all cigarettes currently available in the United States.
    Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Sandwiched around his stints with the Rams, Coen had two separate one-year stints — 2021 and 2023 — as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Kentucky.
    Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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  • The series, which includes eight iterations with options for freestanding and semi-freestanding designs and one- to three-person sizes, was the brand’s longest and most expensive design project to date.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 7 July 2021
  • Certain aspects of the renovation were set in stone: the color palette was predetermined, and Hoese was firm on adding a freestanding tub.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 28 May 2020
Adjective
  • Administration officials heralded the law as liberation from the constant vulnerability of relying on chip-makers in Taiwan, a self-governing island only 100 miles off the Chinese coast that is claimed by Beijing.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing claims as its territory, is under growing pressure from China, which has not ruled out using force to seize control.
    Dan De Luce, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
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  • The ratification announcement was the culmination of a decade-long effort by American Single Malt producers to legitimize a style of whiskey that was self-governed and, for all intents and purposes, already standardized.
    Chris Perugini, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Local nonprofit Safe Ground Sacramento was responsible for operating the camp, which was self-governed by residents.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024

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