How to Use freelancer in a Sentence

freelancer

noun
  • Think of influencers like partners rather than freelancers.
    NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • While taking gigs and busking on the subway, Placido was moonlighting as a freelancer designer for the GAP.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The freelancer’s face was burned and his jaw was split open.
    Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
  • But the other freelancer and I are paid out of the same pot of money.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • As a freelancer, there won't be a shortage of tasks to do.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • To best align, include the freelancer in the scoping process.
    Matthew Mottola, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • The Covid-19 tax break for gig workers and freelancers.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024
  • This week, freelancer Basem Wasef joins the Window Shop crew for the first time.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Fast forward to the 1.5-year mark and our team of freelancers was growing.
    Ginni Saraswati, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
  • If so, where to start in putting value-for-the-freelancer into the equation?
    Jon Younger, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • With productions stalled, the prospect of something in the works gave freelancers hope.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 8 May 2024
  • Such was the case for Megan Belden, a 25-year-old freelancer from San Francisco.
    Natalie Johnson, NBC News, 29 June 2021
  • Alexandria first pitched the story as a freelancer last fall.
    Sfchronicle Pr, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2021
  • As a freelancer, Montague sets aside a specific time block to stay on top of her work.
    Jacqueline Yoo, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The first is to cut down on all of the driving done by freelancers who collect scooters at night for charging.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The freelancer claimed someone else had posted the videos in an act of sabotage.
    New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • Anyone who has been a freelancer knows the pain of trying to get paid in a reasonable amount of time, let alone on the time at all.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The freelancer said the man was wearing a hat bearing the insignia of Patriot Prayer.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
  • At the time, Castro was a freelancer, doing wardrobe on photo shoots.
    Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Most of these people are freelancers, called in from around Louisville on any given night to help out with a broadcast.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Some forecasts project as many as half of all U.S. workers could be freelancers within the next decade, many of them by choice.
    Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Nothing is better in a freelancer’s day than to feel you’ve earned your pleasure.
    Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 1 May 2021
  • Get it for the freelancer, the entrepreneur or the guy who’s newly single.
    Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Breest was working as a freelancer at the event, which Haggis attended as a guest.
    Antonio Ferme, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Breest was working as a freelancer at the 2013 event, which Haggis attended as a guest.
    Antonio Ferme, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
  • His son has no idea why the freelancer took so few pictures at such a memorable and marketable event.
    Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • The Guardian spokesman said Ms. Siegle, who was by then a freelancer for the newspaper, had opted not to pursue her complaint.
    Jane Bradley, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • If so, how should they be defined?; and are all freelancers covered by the same requirements?
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Based on my own experiences as a freelancer, this data makes a lot of sense.
    Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • What are the difficulties of being a dad and a creative freelancer?
    Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2022

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