How to Use free trader in a Sentence

free trader

noun
  • The free traders have an answer: because the market wills it.
    Nicholas Phillips, National Review, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Gary Cohn may be a Democrat who is a free trader, but that's the exception in the party, not the rule.
    Fox News, 11 Mar. 2018
  • On trade, Kudlow is more of a free trader who might agree to target China with tariffs.
    Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The real divide over TPP was not between free traders and protectionists.
    Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 25 Jan. 2017
  • Her father, James, was the passionate free trader who had founded The Economist.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • There are no longer enough free traders in either party to push globalization forward; the question is whether there are enough to keep it from sliding backward.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
  • But for most of the country’s history, Americans have been anything but free traders beyond their own borders.
    John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Cohn, a free trader, resigned from the White House position in May of 2018 after Trump announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
    Jay Heflin, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Ryan was always an outspoken free trader and believer in the power of markets; Trump is a protectionist who has pursued tariffs and started a trade war.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Even the most committed free traders admit protectionism does its damage slowly.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • Corchado, a budding free trader, is optimistic that American democracy and rule of law will boost both countries.
    Jill Leovy, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • On Capitol Hill, the response depended as much on whether lawmakers were longtime free traders as on their party affiliation.
    Lingling Wei, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • Perhaps Trump’s most serious misstep has been the failure of his administration to explain the trade war in geopolitical terms, instead preferring to talk about closing trade deficits and thereby ceding the terms of the fight to the free traders.
    Nicholas Phillips, National Review, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Reagan was also a free trader and foreign policy internationalist.
    Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 4 June 2018

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