free-range

adj

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by animals that are allowed to roam freely, rather than…

    Of, pertaining to, or produced by animals that are allowed to roam freely, rather than being confined indoors.

  2. Allowed to move about outdoors without supervision.

    • free-range children
    • While I have not found corroboration for King's claim, Ivy and Bean series author Annie Barrows has acknowledged that there is a delicate balancing act involved in representing free-range children today
  3. Relating to a hands-off parenting style in which children are allowed to go out and…

    Relating to a hands-off parenting style in which children are allowed to go out and explore alone.

    • free-range parents
    • To correct helicopter parenting, critics have proposed slow parenting, simplicity parenting, and free-range parenting.
    • I think they would laugh if someone asked them whether I was a loose, free-range parent — or my husband, Jesse, for that matter. No, we’re pretty organized and pretty intense.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at free-range. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at free-range. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at free-range

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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