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Some opposition figures pointed to future elections as a way to overturn the dictatorship, but the Trump regime had previously issued edicts that would make elections unfair and unfree.—Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025 Labor leaders also stressed that as unfree people, contract workers did not come to the U.S. voluntarily; instead they were induced to migrate by capitalists.— Made By History, Time, 26 Mar. 2025 Having wrested some room to maneuver from the Supreme Court, the executive branch, and their national party, conservative Democrats disenfranchised blacks and many poorer white voters, repressed opposition parties, and imposed racially separate—and significantly unfree—civic spheres.—Robert Mickey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2017 In 1854, for example, Charleston’s Washington Fire Company recorded paying unfree Black firefighters between $5.00 and $37.75 in a month.—Justin Hawkins / Made By History, TIME, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unfree
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