strings attached
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Researchers from King's College have already started another project examining whether giving homeless people a £2,000 no strings attached cash grant can tackle homelessness.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026
These houses require a ton of work, and there are all sorts of strings attached.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2026
“It became pretty clear that there were strings attached to his benevolence,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
Revisiting the special 30 years later, it’s still impressive to see a fast-paced, puppet-centric explosively creative take on Hanukkah — no strings attached.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
All these years he’d wanted friends, and now he discovered they came with strings attached.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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