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Origin of free speechAn Americanism dating back to 1840–50 Words nearby free speechfree socage, free soil, Free-Soiler, Free Soil party, free space, free speech, free-spending, free spirit, free-spoken, freestanding, Free State Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for free speechIts insidious reach enters into medical offices and chokes off the free-speech rights of the people trying to work there. Pediatricians Have the Right to Ask About Guns|Russell Saunders|July 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST Jacob Mchangama, a free-speech activist and author in Copenhagen, agrees. The Repentant Radical|Michael Moynihan|September 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST But following an outcry from free-speech advocates and fellow filmmakers, officials eventually backed down. The Last Jews of Egypt|Alastair Beach|March 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST From that, he notes, we derive everything essential in American free-speech rights. Free Speech: A Cloistered Value?|Hussein Ibish|September 21, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He's always proud to see American citizens exercising their free-speech rights. Pop Culture and the Recession|David Frum|April 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST During the next few years after the schism of 1908 these free-speech struggles became rather frequent. The I.W.W.|Paul Frederick Brissenden They cannot sustain a live organization unless they have a strike or free-speech fight to stimulate their spirit. An American Idyll|Cornelia Stratton Parker Weinstock, Harris, report on San Diego free-speech fight, 266. The I.W.W.|Paul Frederick Brissenden No attempt is made here to go into the various strikes and free-speech controversies in more than a very cursory manner. The I.W.W.|Paul Frederick Brissenden The most serious of these was the Everett free-speech controversy which culminated in the fatal tragedy of November 6, 1916. The I.W.W.|Paul Frederick Brissenden
British Dictionary definitions for free speech
nounthe right to express one's opinions publicly Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to free speechfreedom of speech, first amendment |