free
adjective
enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery.
is freeing
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present progressiveof free (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Cook is freeing up Ternus from three of the most challenging tasks facing an Apple CEO: dealing with Donald Trump, China’s Xi Jinping, and India’s Narendra Modi.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
A cull of these half-dead businesses is freeing up capital and labor for more entrepreneurial, productive firms, while also allowing those healthier companies to improve their own profitability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Managing the flow through a hospital - that is, freeing up beds by moving on those who are ready to leave - is a vital and challenging task.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
Furthermore, many folks are feeling the impact of food inflation, so being able to build a meal from your own garden is freeing financially, too.
From Salon ● May 2, 2024
He may keep this up for hours at a time, under the conviction that he is freeing himself from the products of fermenting food.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson
