How to Use free market in a Sentence

free market

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  • Isn’t this the same group of folks who love to blather on about the wonders of the free market system?
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 May 2021
  • The simple, maybe simplistic, answer is that the free market has oversight over them when the government does not.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Lettieri: The price of housing is determined by the free market, supply and demand.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Throughout its history, Texas has staunchly supported the free market.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Ultimately, the free market, lauded by so many who object to vaccine requirements, may persuade holdouts to get a shot.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 21 May 2021
  • All of this suggests that the tedious debate between of single payer versus free market may be obsolete, or at least anachronistic.
    — James Breiding, Scientific American, 16 June 2021
  • Gregorie reasons that more transparency would drive people to ski at the safest areas, allowing the free market to weed out problem resorts or force them to improve.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2021
  • At the end of the day, though, the solution isn’t going to be found in policy, or in the invisible hand of the free market, or in the availability of childcare.
    — Liz Elting, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • López Obrador has called for rolling back free market economic policies embraced by the United States and his predecessors.
    — Dallas News, 4 June 2021
  • The free market – not arbitrary regulation and government fiat – are capable of being and should be the arena in which these struggles are settled.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • Neither emphasize things that ordinary people care about, Kazmierczak said — getting a job, being able to afford health care, taking advantage of the free market.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 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
  • The free market has plenty of grandiose ideas about how to fix our broken planet.
    — Paul Ford, Wired, 27 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • So, yes, there’s a preference in the bill for the businesses that operate in the free market.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 19 June 2021
  • That leaves only one option: running down a contract and stepping out on to the free market.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2022
  • China has placed ever stricter controls on the free market.
    — Charlie Campbell / Taipei, TIME, 13 June 2024

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