free
adjective
enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery.
have freed
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present perfectof free.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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They also have freed up staff to focus on other maintenance tasks, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
It has released the list of prisoners, which does not include any of the top militant leaders Hamas is seeking to have freed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
Selling Ter Stegen would have freed up enough salary space to do so, but his surgery made a summer sale impossible.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025
Marshall was trying to guard UConn star Paige Bueckers when Edwards attempted to set a screen that would have freed up space for Bueckers to get off a shot.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
Aru may have freed the Sleeper, but she hadn’t done it on purpose.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
