noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After Mathews was attacked, a free-for-all broke out in the audience.
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As the Internet free-for-all grows, it is becoming impossible for businesses to ignore.
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The sheer number of cars creates a free-for-all on the city's potholed roads.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there will certainly not be another overnight free-for-all .
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The free-for-all of war had to be curtailed.
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There is no room for social, political or historical questions, just an individual free-for-all in choosing which meanings to make.
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Thus a theory of articulation does not mean that the musical field is a pluralistic free-for-all .
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Yet legalisation should not be taken to mean a lawless free-for-all , with no restraint on the supply or use of drugs.
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Yet, within a few years, the whole affair had degenerated into a foodies' free-for-all .