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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

NHS bosses say so-called corridor care is freeing up ambulances and saving lives, but BBC Newsnight has spoken to patients who say the growing practice is humiliating and degrading.

From BBC • May 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the U.N announced it is freeing $20 million for humanitarian needs in Ukraine.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2022

Drain, drain at the stream, love, Thy hunger is freeing, That was born in a dream, love, Along with thy being!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert