How to Use free will in a Sentence

free will

noun
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  • Nick Shadow, the devil, is chained to hell, to show his lack of free will.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
  • Pakistani media have cited the girls as claiming they were married of their own free will.
    — Munir Ahmed, The Seattle Times, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Getting them to leave another city and come here via free will is another matter.
    — oregonlive.com, 1 July 2019
  • On the night of Halloween, the most scary thing will be giving up your free will, your agency, your persona.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Using a razor that is dry, sharp, and rust-free will always give you the closest, cleanest shave possible.
    — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 30 June 2019
  • Lyra, the protagonist, struggles to assert her free will in the face of unpleasant parents, while trying to set the world to rights.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • And now comes the classic Vonnegut subject of free will, expressed as a comic science-fiction device.
    — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
  • The hope is that making the data free will incentivize more companies to teach their AI Icelandic.
    — Caitlin Hu, Quartz, 2 June 2019
  • Just getting to 85 percent carbon-free will be an enormous lift for an industrialized economy like New York’s.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 20 June 2019
  • Language is something shared between human beings with free will, and instructions and sentiments are not automatically effected in the world as if they were cast spells.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • This is even clearer in the original German title, as the German word for voluntary, freiwillig, literally contains the idea of free will.
    — Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Lola’s run is repeated three times, with a different outcome in each, leaving viewers to ponder such weighty concepts of free will versus fate, and the tiny moments and chance decisions that can change the course of a life or death.
    — Peter Larsen, Orange County Register, 5 June 2024
  • But Sabrina—who lost both parents in a mysterious accident and was raised by her aunts—has some lingering doubts, particularly about preserving her free will.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
  • At Brown in 1773, the topic was free will and the debate was in Latin.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 23 May 2024
  • In the tug of war between fate and free will, here the victor is the former.
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
  • This is the planet of free will and we have all been given this gift.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This young man may have chosen to do evil, of his own free will, over and over.
    — WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • No free will of the country to decide its own fate — only the IOC could have pulled the plug.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Is there such a thing as free will, or has this been planned out like a cosmic recipe?
    — Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2022
  • Once Kang died, Strange got some of his free will back along with the entire timeline.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Not to be outdone, the Caddy bounces up and down of its own free will and lurches from side to side.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Are we supposed to think that cancer cells have free will?
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Jesus had free will and made the decision to be obedient to the will of God.
    — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Auerbach’s new work emerged from no less heady a quandary than the existence of free will.
    — Julia Felsenthal, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The whole point is to for people not to be influenced, but instead to act out of their own free will.
    — The Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The land of the free and the home of the brave ought to be more generous in our regard for free will and in gratitude for our guarding of it.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 28 Feb. 2022
  • But determinism and fate vs. free will are not the main focuses of the play.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 3 July 2021
  • Audiences that got hooked on the first two seasons for free will now have to pay for Prime to get a third season.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The free will we are each born with is the most important gift presented to us as humans.
    — Sesil Pir, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • This indicates that the watermelon came off the vine of its own free will.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2021

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