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

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

Nin must have freed them, with her slender tools and miraculous hands, and they’d all gone running into the sunset together.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee