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Recent Examples of unfree
Some opposition figures pointed to future elections as a way to overturn the dictatorship, but the Trump regime had previously issued edicts that would make elections unfair and unfree.
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Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
Labor leaders also stressed that as unfree people, contract workers did not come to the U.S. voluntarily; instead they were induced to migrate by capitalists.
— Made By History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
In 1854, for example, Charleston’s Washington Fire Company recorded paying unfree Black firefighters between $5.00 and $37.75 in a month.
—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025
Having wrested some room to maneuver from the Supreme Court, the executive branch, and their national party, conservative Democrats disenfranchised blacks and many poorer white voters, repressed opposition parties, and imposed racially separate—and significantly unfree—civic spheres.
—Robert Mickey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfree
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Cleanup efforts — including efforts to reduce the amount of sewage, fertilizer and petroleum products being rinsed into the lagoon — are heavily dependent on cities and counties.—
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Today, every country’s economy is tied to others, but a small nation that’s as historically dependent on trade as Denmark seems particularly vulnerable to Trump’s caprices.—
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On November 12, officers responded to a check on a subject request in the 1800 block of Snow Meadow Lane.—
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Yet lately our civic atmosphere feels less like a New England town meeting and more like a perpetual group text where everyone is typing in all caps and nobody is reading past the subject line.—
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Burnout now consumes American physicians, who are overworked, nonautonomous and adrift without help.—
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The absence of access for nonautonomous conferences like the American Athletic Conference has also been a point of contention.—
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But over the past several decades, scholars have made headway in piecing together the ideas and actions of resistance leaders such as Aponte, as well as of the enslaved themselves.—
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These courts originated in the 1690 Act for the Better Ordering of Slaves and operated for more than 150 years outside constitutional protection, explicitly denying enslaved people the trial rights that white Americans enjoyed.—
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“Unfree.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfree. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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