liberate
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It’s Morello half-speaking, half-singing against a gentle piano melody that emotionally underscores the song’s message of quiet defiance: “Maybe you can save me/Maybe you can’t/Maybe you can liberate me/Nah, I’ll take care of that.”
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
"So the family sat down... and decided we have to do our traditional rituals to liberate his soul."
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
They can’t pretend that speeding through the breeze could liberate them from day-to-day life, and the singer asks, retrospectively, “Do you look forward to the past / Or forward to today?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
In theory, we could able to liberate ourselves of dull, menial tasks, such as replying to emails, going to meetings or managing calendars and diaries, by delegating these to capable bots.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Oscar says that Swan is a new station that broadcasts important bulletins by exiles who want to liberate the island.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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"And then such an extreme event takes place, and in a way, liberates everything -- all the emotions, all the ideas and the passions, all the terrible things."
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
The shift liberates her holiday shopping, says Nussen, lead lighting designer at Consumer’s Lighting, a company she runs with her husband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
“Sometimes I feel like a little girl — I play, I have fun and I laugh. Onstage, I say everything through rap. It liberates me: When I get a microphone, I’m a different person.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
Here is the real thing, where video liberates rather than imprisons all-enveloping music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
Thus sitting, and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns, I seem advanced To some secure and more than mortal height, That liberates and exempts me from them all.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
“He’s liberated from his own shyness when he’s trying to solve the puzzle,” Mitchell said recently over Zoom from London.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The operation would continue, he said, “until the country is liberated from the control of terrorist militias.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
At the same time, he doesn’t sound surprised by his recent play, which he attributes to winning and being liberated in new Philadelphia coach Ryan Richter’s offense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Eventually they were liberated by American troops and Hay returned to the UK, via Reims, on 4 May 1945.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
White Deer gave us a little statue of the Buddha-to-be, a happy, laughing god who would exist in the future when all mankind had been liberated from the material world.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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It was a very liberating album to make.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
"I'd love to see artificial intelligence winning wars, liberating territories."
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
"We hope that it will happen as soon as possible and we hope that the cooling, liberating rain that the forecasters do not yet see coming will arrive."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Each in his way was in the process of liberating himself from the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Grandpa Louis died four years after he’d come home from liberating Italy along with the all-black army, according to Big Ma.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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