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Discover LudwigThe phrase "asked for free" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when someone is requesting something without payment or cost involved.
Example: "She asked for free samples of the product before making a purchase."
Alternatives: "requested at no cost" or "sought without charge".
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And Valerio Valeriano Weyler did not come up with the idea for reconcentration, but he was more than happy to implement it, and he actually asked for free license to use the terms he thought appropriate to secure victory.
As a result, the article said, Dockers asked for free compensatory commercial time from CBS, known as a make-good, which the network would provide during its coverage of the men's basketball tournament of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
For this service Weev might have asked for free dinners for life, but instead he was recently sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of more than $73,000 in damages to AT&T to cover the cost of notifying its customers of its own security failure.
Some have even asked for free trips or an "eaters visa" to Denmark.
Beware, though: Academics are often asked for free advice and information, so you will need to have enough of a business brain to decide when this is worthwhile as a "loss leader" and could lead to more lucrative work.
They asked for free permits instead of auctioning, and encouraged the unlimited use of offsets.
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I don't believe in asking for free stuff".
"We're not asking for free booze or happy hour," he said.
"We are asking for free movement, no racism and to respect our jurisdiction within our territories".
I disliked those visits — villagers watching us with awed eyes, young men asking for free phone cards, even free phones — because it all made me feel helplessly powerful.
At the Bayou Clinic, started by Regina M. Benjamin, now the United States surgeon general, 20 percent more patients are asking for free health care.
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