adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be easily/readily/freely available (= easy to get )
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The material used was cheap and readily available.
flow freely
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If the windows are shut, air cannot flow freely through the building.
flowed freely
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Beer and whisky flowed freely as the evening wore on.
flowed freely
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Everyone was relaxed and the conversation flowed freely .
freely/readily/openly admit sth (= admit without being ashamed )
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I freely admit I’m hopeless at maths.
roam freely
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Chickens and geese roam freely in the back yard.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
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Many of these services are freely available online, so focus purely on the cost of trading.
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Good relations between partners depend on their sharing equally the work and making their findings freely available to each other.
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Nine items that a freely available on both sides of the channel.
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It's freely available on the Internet and used as the core of many ISPs' Windows 3.x bundles.
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Meanwhile the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has said that it is making its course materials freely available on the internet.
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Economic surveys Economic and political reports on most countries are made freely available by most banks to their customers.
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The means of power and decision-making in the decentralized authority are made freely available to non-state agencies and other organized interest groups.
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Flagrant disregard for the evidence freely available in libraries at home and abroad was self-defeating.
■ VERB
acknowledge
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Tom freely acknowledged this just as Terry acknowledged his earlier insensitivity.
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He freely acknowledges that he allowed the behaviour of others to put him off the career he really wanted.
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It was as though, having given up the struggle themselves, they could more freely acknowledge the value of it.
admit
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She freely admitted although only to herself that this was because Maxim would be there.
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This he freely admitted , although, even so, neither he nor Mama would ever reveal what his real name was.
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She freely admitted that when she was shoplifting she was, in a way, hoping to go to prison.
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Vaught freely admitted that he is a follower.
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But Moore freely admits he has no stomach for the stunts.
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Manager Graham freely admits he could never have imagined this threesome getting just one goal between them from six games.
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I freely admit that things have changed since, but that was part of the argument.
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Now he freely admits to being gay and to having had a stable, loving relationship with another man.
breathe
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Can the tobacco industry now afford to breathe freely once again, unlike its customers?
choose
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You tell them that this is the card that they have freely chosen .
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Ours was a union of two educated people, a marriage freely chosen .
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To address the latter, he suggests a spiritual friend freely chosen and consulted in confidence.
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This is especially true when it comfortably serves as a prologue to the life we have freely chosen for ourselves.
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The anthropologists have to point again and again to the great many societies in which spouses are arranged and not freely chosen .
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The state jury rejected arguments that Richard Boeken had freely chosen to smoke.
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A free man, acting freely , choosing freely.
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Affective autonomy thus has its source in the social activities of children and are based on freely chosen cooperation.
circulate
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A buffet meal is much easier and more sociable, enabling you to circulate freely .
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Place them so that air can freely circulate around the back.
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Thus a common Zollverein currency was used alongside the numerous other state currencies, which themselves circulated freely everywhere.
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Other cell types - leucocytes and blood platelets - spend much of their time circulating freely and thus showing no adhesive interactions.
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Avoid very sweaty armpits because sweat quickly decomposes in areas where air does not circulate freely .
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Boards should be positioned in storage so that air can circulate freely around both main faces.
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The principle is to support the crop above the ground and to allow the air to circulate freely through it.
express
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Ideas are expressed freely and openly. 8.
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Though he was naturally reserved in expressions or gestures of affection, Stewart freely expressed his love in letters to Avon.
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It is important that people be encouraged to freely express their concerns.
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Feelings and passions are freely expressed and there is plenty of opportunity for the shedding of tears.
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They underline the right of migrant workers to express freely their ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic characteristics.
float
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This means that water is not composed of individual molecules floating freely around but that the molecules are linked together.
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The amount of shares floating freely is tiny.
flow
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In Berlin, Friedrichstrasse meets Zimmerstrasse at a very ordinary road junction across which traffic flows freely .
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Cecilia viuda is highly charged emotionally and tears flow freely .
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Beer and whisky flowed freely , amid much back-slapping and bonhomie.
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But the fountain was flowing freely this morning.
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It operates as a conduit for ideas to flow freely throughout an organization.
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John Carroll rightly reminded others that Catholic blood had flowed freely during the war.
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Again, press smooth so water will flow freely .
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In the primary processes of the unconscious system, psychical energy flows freely by means of displacement and condensation.
give
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Almost all the information they gain is given freely and with the tacit or blind approval of Western governments.
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Such arguments show that the instrumental as well as the non-instrumental validations of consent depend on its being freely given .
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She was talkative and forthright in her opinions, which she gave freely and often without the qualification for doing so.
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He freely gives time for the dying wife, the injured mechanic, the traumatized telephonist.
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He gave freely of his services over a wide field of interests.
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Comparisons are sometimes made with the growing number of laity who give freely of their time and skills to the Church.
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If people give you things, they should give freely , extracting nothing in return.
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For all of the help which you have given and continue to give freely we would like to thank you most sincerely.
move
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These characters would never escape their existential lots, or move freely from one class to another.
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But even for those who move freely in this circle of literary classics, Characters still has some problems.
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The traffic, even at that time of evening, wasn't good, but at least it was moving freely .
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They are apt to talk a great deal with each other and to move freely and purposefully about the space.
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One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other.
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Once hot spots and rifting cave created a new border, the plates on either side of it start moving freely .
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There are, however, natural systems in which dissolved metals move freely through membranes, irrespective of concentration.
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These gnomes would move freely through the earth and were guardians of mines and quarries.
roam
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However, the consequences of allowing cats to roam freely can be environmentally significant.
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Ethanol is thus a powerful solvent that can roam freely throughout the body.
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Collectivisation in particular is disastrous for nomadic peoples, who need to roam freely to feed their animals on sparse vegetation.
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In their place, dozens of sheep, goats, chickens and geese roam freely .
run
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This runs freely at the end of the lyric composition as finally the speaker explicitly asserts his capacity to sing for love.
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Blood was running freely from his nose and dripping in rapid little jots from the point of his chin.
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All of the zips run freely .
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Tears were running freely down the girl's face.
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Rats run freely over the shrouded corpses which lie abandoned in the corridors.
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Zips: all the zips run freely on both the fly and the inner.
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Zips: all zips run freely and are protected on the flysheet by a weather flap.
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Zips: all zips run freely .
speak
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Although it became easier to speak freely at home, only Herzen's periodicals escaped the censor entirely.
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She spoke freely about her fears and her hopes to anyone who would listen.
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Antony doesn't dare speak freely yet.
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Because we think of ourselves as speaking freely , our speech is hard to decode.
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I could speak freely to different people - rich and poor, young and old.
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I am Professor Challenger, initiator of the expedition, and you may speak freely to me.
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But in time you will be more natural with me, and laugh, and speak freely .
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It was his job to introduce the four-priest panel and then leave the room so people could speak freely about his pastorate.
spend
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I could afford to spend freely enough on a personal level - which was what confused her, I suppose.
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It even stimulates the sacred free market: Lovers spend freely on gifts, travel, clothes and restaurants.
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Abbey has spent freely developing other lines, such as online banking and investment services for wealthy customers.
talk
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I suppose Silas is nearby and you're unable to talk freely .
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They talked freely to each other.
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They made me welcome and gave up their time to talk freely and openly about everything that had happened to them.
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Good advisors will act as counselors and create a warm, supportive environment for clients to talk freely .
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It meant the freedom to talk freely , discuss matters which could not be voiced within four walls.
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Seriously though, I am of the opinion that women need their own space to talk freely without the presence of men.
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We talk freely about emotions but do not really stop to think what they are.
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He talked freely about quite a number of subjects, but had not once broached the question of being sent ashore.
travel
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Traffic was travelling freely , east and west, along the North Circular Road yesterday.
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Ernest Bevin's utopian vision of going to Victoria Station and travelling freely abroad without documents of identity has finally faded.
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The eyes can travel freely along the series of dots comprising the line.
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He and his wife Mary lived in London, unable to travel freely and even avoided by some of his fellow scientists.
use
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When a woman's voice is used freely and has power, it can sound and feel like a flow of light.
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Of course, in very full and loud tuttis it can be used freely .
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But although instruments were freely used they are not clearly differentiated from voices until the Second Book of Symphoniae.
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Painting and printing Painting Paint is another material which children need to use freely and creatively.
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The court has the power to strike down statutes passed by parliament and provincial legislatures, one it uses freely .
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The Lords quite freely use their modest powers to scrutinise and amend non-financial bills sent to them by Tories in the Commons.
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True, there were still plenty of pockets of sadism where the whip and the birch were freely used .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For most of the year, farmers allow the sheep to roam freely on the hillsides.
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Foreign tourists will be allowed to leave the country freely .
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I freely admit I made many mistakes.
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If your muscles are tense and tight, blood cannot circulate freely .
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In England he could write freely , without fear of arrest.
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Mrs. Atwood's note said that she freely chose to end her life.
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Ms. Tate freely acknowledges that she hasn't paid the fines, but argues she should not have to.
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Sugar is given away freely in restaurants.
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the country's first freely elected president
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Thomas could not find anyone with whom he could speak freely .
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TV companies need the ability to operate freely , with the minimum of government interference,
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gamers freely download them from myriad sites.
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He enters freely into public debate from his close attention to most subjects, but he is no Orator.
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She told me so freely on more than one occasion.
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The personal consequences of complete isolation in hospital for patients and families who have previously socialised freely are potentially enormous.
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This allows harmonics and noise to pass freely .
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This he freely admitted, although, even so, neither he nor Mama would ever reveal what his real name was.
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You tell them that this is the card that they have freely chosen.