give free rein to
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“The decision doesn’t mean that we will give free rein to infections,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022
More troubling than apparently unintended irony is that Akpan’s stratagem doesn’t imbue him with enough confidence to give free rein to that historical war story in any of the fictionalized iterations with which he toys.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021
Its simplicity is what makes it special Like Shadow after it, Ico asks you to give free rein to emotion.
From The Verge • Dec. 2, 2019
Szarkowski had always been a distinctive stylist, but this format enabled him to give free rein to his talents as a writer, which were usually securely tethered by curatorial obligation.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2018
The intellectual tone of the society he frequented, the sympathy of his transcendental friends, the standing of his pupils, the expectation of exacting lookers on, encouraged the philosopher to give free rein to his theory.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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