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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Workarounds have freed some to flow on alternative routes, including a Saudi pipeline to the Red Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
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
We're seeing them now, emaciated and pale, blinking into the light, filmed on the mobiles of the rebel fighters who have freed thousands of them from years behind bars.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
American officials had acknowledged that German officials were asking for Mr. Navalny to be released in any deal that would have freed Mr. Krasikov, though they did not indicate a deal was close.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
If they had noticed it in time, they could have freed it, but now all they could do was throw it back into the Mediterranean.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
