How to Use free speech in a Sentence

free speech

noun
  • Here’s how the Supreme Court got the big free speech stuff right.
    — Fox News, 8 July 2024
  • The First Amendment guarantees us the right to free speech.
    — WSJ, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Under the guise of counter-speech being free speech, the chorus rolled on.
    — Justin Vallejo, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Stanford has free speech zones where protests can take place.
    — Jeffrey Koseff, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • In the case of Twitter, Musk wants to change the company’s approach to free speech.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • When the very logic of speech must shift in order for people to be heard, is that still free speech?
    — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Those are the ones whose free speech rights would be violated by a ban.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • No one spends $44 billion to profess their love for free speech.
    — Bybradley Tusk, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The court ruled 6-3 that free speech rights protected the designer.
    — oregonlive, 17 July 2023
  • Jones, who lives and works in Austin, Texas, has bashed the trial as unfair and an assault on free speech rights.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Chaplin might have been made a symbol of the suppression of the right to free speech and dissent in the McCarthy era.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The brief also makes clear the seriousness of the case, arguing that the stakes for free speech were high.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • All my critics, feel free to attack me because that's what free speech is all about.
    — Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 3 May 2022
  • But throwing a life vest to Twitter won’t stop free speech from drowning.
    — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The brief argues that the subpoena can lead to suppression of free speech.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Musk’s decisions as being out of step with his vow to make Twitter a haven of free speech.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • On the right, the idea that DEI stands in the way of free speech, and imposes progressive groupthink, has become a mantra.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2024
  • Will the service pull back on content moderation in the name of free speech?
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 6 Apr. 2022
  • At the heart of these conflicts is a debate over free speech and how far schools should go in cutting ties with Israel.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The petition is supportive of free speech and gun rights.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The crackdown on vendors who use free speech claims to skirt city rules is less clear-cut, officials said.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Short of giving up on free speech, there’s only one way to lower the price of dissent: increase the supply.
    — Time, 12 July 2023
  • One of its main goals, Chandler Franklin says, is to promote free speech and civic dialogue.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The Supreme Court has now said states cannot, as forcing artists to create such speech would violate their free speech rights.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 June 2023
  • But other forms of free speech have abounded under Musk.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
  • These changes could make the internet more open and fair, and therefore a better, safer place for the exercise of free speech.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The move became a catalyst for Uncle Luke’s fight for free speech that went all the way up to the Supreme Court and laid the groundwork for today’s hip-hop.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • But for Disney to so readily retreat from a free speech fight before Trump is even in the White House?
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The reports were met with ridicule and frustration from Reddit users, many of whom branded Musk's attempt to suppress the conversation as hypocrisy, given Musk's previous commitment to free speech.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s authoritarian playbook Trump’s orders (and threats of orders) against law firms violate the firms’ and their lawyers’ rights to free speech and association, as well as the right to counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2025

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