freer
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Ng noted that if Beijing "truly wants to accelerate" the internationalisation of China's yuan currency, "it will need to accept freer cross-border capital movement".
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
One relic of Hong Kong’s freer days is how fast and easy it remains to establish a business there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The majority dismissed Hamm as improvidently granted, sparing the life of the defendant, Joseph Smith, and rejecting Alabama’s request for freer rein to execute intellectually disabled people.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
But her long struggle against military rule has made her synonymous with hopes of a freer, more democratic future.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
But if he were to marry one of the Horner girls, or anyone else, he could see the obligations ahead, whereas if he remained single, he would be freer to pursue his science.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
What the deuyl & a morten tellest thou a man of warre of hypocrisie, away with hypocrisie to the monkes and the freers.
From Two Dyaloges (c. 1549) by Desiderius Erasmus
I listened to this atrocious sentence with horror, then gasped out: "We are not stealers of men, O King, we are freers of men, as Tom and Jerry of your own people could tell you."
From Allan and the Holy Flower by Henry Rider Haggard
Kings almost of the west, and donors to the east, arousers of crusades and freers of the Sepulchre!
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
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