free
adjective
enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery.
has freed
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present perfectof free (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The show is curated by Claudine Grammont, head of the graphic arts department at Paris’s Musée National d’Art Moderne in the Centre Pompidou, where a multiyear renovation has freed up the museum’s vast Matisse holdings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Iran has freed a Japanese national held since January, Tokyo said Tuesday, with Kyodo News reporting however that the individual is not allowed to leave the Islamic republic.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice president, has called for reforms to Venezuela’s energy sector to attract foreign investment and has freed dozens of dissidents once deemed enemies of the Chavista revolution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026
That has freed him to rule completely by whim.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026
And this revolution has freed the Dreamers to plunder not just the bodies of humans but the body of the Earth itself.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
