How to Use a free hand in a Sentence
a free hand
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Khamenei also gave the Guard a free hand to build a network of businesses and dominate the economy.
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Lee Keath,
Fortune,
1 Mar. 2026
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Khamenei also gave the Guard a free hand to build a network of businesses and dominate the economy.
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Dallas Morning News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Israel rejects linking both battlefields, and insists on having a free hand to attack Hezbollah.
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Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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Even so, even in places where Democrats have a free hand to do their own shenanigans, such as Oregon and Illinois, there aren’t many districts that haven’t already been designed to their advantage.
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Philip Elliott,
Time,
4 Aug. 2025
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Soriano said the survey’s entire premise was a setup, since most people will vote to primarily preserve first responder service, thereby giving the city a free hand to cut other services at will.
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Steven Mihailovich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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The vote came in response to a Supreme Court decision last week that weakened the Voting Rights Act and gave Republicans a free hand to reshape majority-Black districts that routinely elect Democrats.
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Patrick Marley,
Washington Post,
7 May 2026
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On the more remote east coast and in the far north, colonization took root more slowly, leaving explorers such as American Robert Peary and traders such as Danish-Greenlandic Knud Rasmussen a free hand to employ and trade with local people.
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Genevieve Lemoine,
The Conversation,
27 Jan. 2026
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