How to Use free market in a Sentence

free market

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  • The free market has plenty of grandiose ideas about how to fix our broken planet.
    — Paul Ford, Wired, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Government should be there to enable the free market and capitalism to solve problems.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
  • China’s leadership is still steeped in Marxist thought and is willing to put the needs of the state over the dictates of a free market.
    — Jennifer Conrad, Wired, 29 July 2021
  • In a free market, companies earn great market power only by benefiting their customers.
    — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Consistent with sound zoning, the free market should be left to determine real estate values and how, where and when real estate is developed.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Capitalism and free market economies inherently create competition to see who can make the most money.
    — Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • That’s the free market regulating itself, a concept which conservatives always claim to cherish.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2021
  • But critics of the NCAA model note that is exactly what happens in any industry subject to the free market.
    — CBS News, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The laws, which were passed last September, loosened rules around the sale and pricing of produce that have protected farmers from an unregulated free market for decades.
    — Rhea Mogul and Swati Gupta, CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
  • But that sort of free market is what led the FDA to start weighing the costs and benefits of drugs in the first place during the early 1960s.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The reforms, enacted in September last year, loosened rules around the sale and pricing of produce that have protected farmers from an unfettered free market for decades.
    — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • The fuel is paid for upon receipt and priced in the free market.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
  • There was a hope that China would become more of a free market over time.
    — Selina Wang, ABC News, 14 May 2024
  • 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
  • Under Deng, the country embraced the free market and opened up to global trade.
    — Laura He, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • His economic plan is built on tariffs, which deny the Republican belief in free markets.
    — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024

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