How to Use free speech in a Sentence

free speech

noun
  • Here’s how the Supreme Court got the big free speech stuff right.
    Fox News, 8 July 2024
  • The First Amendment guarantees us the right to free speech.
    WSJ, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Under the guise of counter-speech being free speech, the chorus rolled on.
    Justin Vallejo, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Stanford has free speech zones where protests can take place.
    Jeffrey Koseff, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • When the very logic of speech must shift in order for people to be heard, is that still free speech?
    Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Those are the ones whose free speech rights would be violated by a ban.
    David Pogue, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • No one spends $44 billion to profess their love for free speech.
    Bybradley Tusk, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The court ruled 6-3 that free speech rights protected the designer.
    oregonlive, 17 July 2023
  • Jones, who lives and works in Austin, Texas, has bashed the trial as unfair and an assault on free speech rights.
    Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Chaplin might have been made a symbol of the suppression of the right to free speech and dissent in the McCarthy era.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • But throwing a life vest to Twitter won’t stop free speech from drowning.
    WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Musk’s decisions as being out of step with his vow to make Twitter a haven of free speech.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • On the right, the idea that DEI stands in the way of free speech, and imposes progressive groupthink, has become a mantra.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2024
  • At the heart of these conflicts is a debate over free speech and how far schools should go in cutting ties with Israel.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The petition is supportive of free speech and gun rights.
    Kevin Collier, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The crackdown on vendors who use free speech claims to skirt city rules is less clear-cut, officials said.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Short of giving up on free speech, there’s only one way to lower the price of dissent: increase the supply.
    Time, 12 July 2023
  • One of its main goals, Chandler Franklin says, is to promote free speech and civic dialogue.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The Supreme Court has now said states cannot, as forcing artists to create such speech would violate their free speech rights.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 June 2023
  • But other forms of free speech have abounded under Musk.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The move became a catalyst for Uncle Luke’s fight for free speech that went all the way up to the Supreme Court and laid the groundwork for today’s hip-hop.
    C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Lawmakers say the goal is to protect children, but tech companies say the bills are a threat to free speech.
    Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 9 May 2024
  • Judge Chutkan made clear last week that the boundaries of Mr. Trump’s free speech rights, even as a political candidate, would have to give way to the rules of the court.
    Alan Feuer, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Fallout from the Israel-Hamas war has roiled campuses across the U.S. and reignited a debate over free speech.
    Michael Casey, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The First Amendment of the Constitution allows free speech, which some can interpret as the right to burn holy books.
    Armin Langer, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2023
  • California should be the first state defending the right to free speech on the internet.
    The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • But please stop calling him some kind of heroic champion of free speech.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Amid this rise, there have been attacks on free speech, such as the increase in book bans and restrictions on public protests.
    Kristina M. Lee, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But attorneys for TikTok say banning the app violates the free speech of millions of Americans, some of whom turn to the service to express their political views.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Musk has said the purpose of the giveaway is to encourage people to sign a petition supporting constitutional rights, specifically the First and Second amendments — the right to free speech and the right to bear arms.
    Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024

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