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There are many ways for a country to become unfree.—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 9 May 2026 Other places had other forms of unfree or bonded labor.—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026 Until a few years ago, millions of Iranians repeatedly voted in the country’s mostly unfree elections, hoping that regime insiders could pave a path for reform.—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026 His elections in 2018 and 2024 were widely denounced as fraudulent or unfree by the U.S., the European Union and many Latin American governments.—Paul Vallas, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unfree