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Recent Examples of unfree
The dynamics of this unfair, unfree election illuminate the nature of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unstable authoritarianism and its precarious future.
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Nate Schenkkan, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2019
Billions of people in unfree countries like China, Russia, Iran or North Korea crave opportunities to vote in free and fair elections for their rulers.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
Landscape and interior, the poet as unfree as all other things seem to be free.
—Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Matti and Amanda wrote that my prospective child would be similarly unfree.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
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Nate Schenkkan, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2019
Billions of people in unfree countries like China, Russia, Iran or North Korea crave opportunities to vote in free and fair elections for their rulers.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
Landscape and interior, the poet as unfree as all other things seem to be free.
—Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Matti and Amanda wrote that my prospective child would be similarly unfree.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfree
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For Matthews, surrealist cinema—forward-looking, innovative, dependent on the future itself for inspiration—still had its best days before it.Noor Anand Chawla, JSTOR Daily, 9 Dec. 2024
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The result is a population increasingly dependent on nutrient-poor, high-calorie foods.Robert Pearl, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Though the region was subject of a lake effect snow warning through Tuesday evening, Hochul said on X Sunday night that the ban on buses, commercial trucks and tractor-trailer trucks would end at 2 a.m. ET.Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
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The Royalty Trust reported no distributable income for the quarter, consistent with the previous year, due to the lack of production from the onshore Highlander subject interest.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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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
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Jackson, and so many others in the Knightdale community, had no idea that the wooded land behind the community clubhouse pool was a burial ground for enslaved Black people.Sade Green, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
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The irons intentionally recall the shape of the ships used to transport enslaved Africans abroad, showing that these women are inseparable from centuries-old horrors.The ARTnews Awards Jury, ARTnews.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Unfree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfree. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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