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Meanings of freewheeling in English

Cheerfully irresponsible.

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Usage of freewheeling in English
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The nature of Twitter's freewheeling stream makes it confusing for new users.
Wired
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The days of freewheeling fortune-seekers striking out into the wilderness were over.
BBC
3
Trump's freewheeling campaign may be sowing the seeds of its own destruction.
The Guardian
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They are likely to play very differently to Slavisa Jokanovic's freewheeling losers.
The Guardian
5
In a freewheeling response, he said: Russia has no respect for our country.
The Guardian
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This club must have understood that freewheeling days are not guaranteed.
The Irish Times
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The freewheeling news conferences on the homeward flight is the highlight.
Reuters
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We're not as freewheeling as we used to be, you know.
Union Atlantic
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They made the current lot look like freewheeling entertainers by comparison.
The Guardian
10
Importantly, too, this is not a messy novel, despite its ostensibly freewheeling nature.
The Guardian
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Hans Peter Lindstrøm produces a freewheeling, floor-filling, all-killer-no-filler tune for the season ahead.
The Irish Times
12
Dublin was a city very much like Glasgow: mercantile, freewheeling, and culturally open-ended.
How the scots invented the modern world: the true story of how w...
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No team of salesmen ever had a more liberal, freewheeling brief.
A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll...
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They didn't have enough editorial control over the inherently freewheeling format.
Wired
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The hung parliament and its freewheeling characters were a backing track of instability.
The Guardian
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But the musical scope is wider, tighter and much more freewheeling.
The Irish Times
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Freewheeling across language varieties
United States of America
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United Kingdom
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