How to Use free market in a Sentence

free market

noun
  • Friedman put Chicago on the map as a fortress of the free market.
    Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The free market was supposed to lower fares and give us more choices.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Both sides can agree that a free market is more efficient.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • That leaves only one option: running down a contract and stepping out on to the free market.
    New York Times, 11 May 2022
  • And the not-a-Nobel award’s emphasis on the primacy of the free market has been damaging at times.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2022
  • That’s how the free market works, especially when there is no salary cap in baseball.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2021
  • In this connected age, there’s something like a free market of ideas.
    National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The speeches on Saturday did not include mentions of the free market.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The free market has largely failed to pay for it, so McGowan has found a way to pull money from the political realm to help foot the bill.
    WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But so far, those plans have stalled out in favor of working with the free market and private insurers.
    Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
  • In a free market, prices naturally settle at the point that balances out those two forces.
    New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • In the free market, this will cause more planting, even with rising costs and a scarcity of fertilizer.
    Robert Barone, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022
  • States such as New York only need to step aside and allow the free market to favor those with the best plans and most experience.
    Jonathan Turley, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • But without the give and take of a free market, student-athletes simply have no knowledge of their true NIL value.
    Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
  • At times like these, Milton Friedman, one of the free market’s greatest defenders, is much missed . . .
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Electricity prices under the act, judges ruled, are governed first and foremost by the free market.
    Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In a battle of the free market and the free world, American social media users voted with their eyeballs.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Under conditions like those, a case can be made that the free market on its own hasn’t done enough to prevent disruptions.
    Martin Sullivan, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Musk taking over the company with a stated free speech agenda would seem to be the classic free market response.
    W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 27 Apr. 2022
  • There is no reason why free market principles should be at odds with social good.
    Praveen Vetrivel, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • This puts everyone on a level playing field, which in turn, yields the greatest benefits of a free market.
    Yec, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • If so, would it not be produced by private free markets without the action of government?
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Decreasing their tax burden in a free market would force them to lower rents to attract tenants.
    Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 11 July 2023

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