Contend
Contend verb - To engage in a contest.
Free
Free verb - To set free (as from slavery or confinement).
Common collocations
| village | contend village | free village |
Both words in one sentence
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Meanwhile, people in the wasteland outside are free but have to contend with raiders, mutants and fascist militias trying to kill them at every turn.
Source: Gilded Cage - When shippers have to contend with romantic rivals to their main ship, they will often put those rivals together in order to leave their main ship free to be with each other.
Source: Ship Mates -
The free humans and mutants live in miles-deep shafts in the earth and must contend with general lawlessness, slave trading, crimelords, the risk of falling, and Terminator-like infiltration robots called Betrayers.
Source: Slept Through the Apocalypse
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Free and Contend. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contend/free
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Free or Contend. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/contend/free.
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