How to Use free market in a Sentence

free market

noun
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  • Friedman put Chicago on the map as a fortress of the free market.
    — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • There are tides of public opinion and the pull of the free market.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 7 Mar. 2021
  • These fights don’t need to get worse — and the free market isn’t the solution.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
  • In a free market, the saying goes, high prices cure high prices.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2022
  • As with the rest of the free market, the ultimate arbiters are the consumers, we the public.
    — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Isn’t this the same group of folks who love to blather on about the wonders of the free market system?
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 May 2021
  • The 27-year-old language of the ban is based on the belief that the public is best served by free market rental rates.
    — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The fuel is paid for upon receipt and priced in the free market.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
  • If left to the free market, the N.F.L. would have collapsed shortly after it was formed.
    — Rich Cohen, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • As usual, the free market is way ahead of the government.
    — Stephen Moore, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
  • There was a hope that China would become more of a free market over time.
    — Selina Wang, ABC News, 14 May 2024
  • In a free market system, agents and studios can say what crosses the line.
    — Chloe Melas, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Roach said his argument isn’t about the culture wars, but about the free market.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Rather than posing a threat to the free market, a DirecTV-Dish tie-up may only serve to kick the can down the road a bit.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The Carson plan, by contrast, harnessed the power of the free market.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Songwriters don’t get to sell their work in a free market.
    — David Israelite, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The free market was supposed to lower fares and give us more choices.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And then third, the importance of free markets, free trade, low taxes, all that stuff.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The free market has plenty of grandiose ideas about how to fix our broken planet.
    — Paul Ford, Wired, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But that sort of free market is what led the FDA to start weighing the costs and benefits of drugs in the first place during the early 1960s.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Under Deng, the country embraced the free market and opened up to global trade.
    — Laura He, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Both sides can agree that a free market is more efficient.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The money generated from the game was too great to just sit back and let the free market decide.
    — Lz Granderson, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2020
  • At the same time, Le Maire comes off as anything but an champion of pure free markets.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2019
  • In some sense, the crisis facing the U.S. fossil fuel sector comes from its flight too close to the sun of a free market.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Yass, the free market true believer, now owed the survival of much of his fortune to the U.S. government.
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 21 June 2022
  • The companies argue that the free market will handle any glut of oil.
    — Randy Diamond, ExpressNews.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • China’s leadership is still steeped in Marxist thought and is willing to put the needs of the state over the dictates of a free market.
    — Jennifer Conrad, Wired, 29 July 2021
  • In case after free-speech case, Kennedy showed the importance of tolerance in the free market of ideas.
    — Ilya Shapiro, National Review, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Zoë Schiffer: Particularly for the last two, suspicion of centralized power and the importance of free markets, those feel like tenets that have come up again and again in recent years in the tech industry for sure.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024

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