liberate

A cleaning tip to liberate your home from sticker tyranny: If you have a kiddo in your life, you know that stickers can magically appear on just about every surface within their arm’s reach.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

Literature’s importance, we observe, is to liberate the imagination—to escape oppression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Yes, he was so wedded to it, this idea that different, new mediums liberate the ones that come before.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Hegseth was speaking in Normandy 82 years after allied forces stormed French beaches to liberate Nazi-occupied north-western Europe in 1944.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

"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

“She sang because she wanted to feel alive, and she wanted to feel free, and she wanted to feel connected to her faith — and that already just liberates the performer.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 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

Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Mr. Refn understandably feels liberated to venture forth on whatever kind of crazy cinematic escapade he wants, and if you don’t get it, that’s on you.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The album begs the question: What’s a “normal life” to a liberated woman?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Born into a nominally liberated time for women, our Gen X girlhood was a specific kind of confusing: Yes, we were weaned on “Free to Be You and Me.”

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

"I felt liberated when it was being shaved," she says.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

I pull on the hem of the vintage X-Files tee I liberated from my mom’s closet years ago.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

"I'd love to see artificial intelligence winning wars, liberating territories."

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Each in his way was in the process of liberating himself from the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

As Henley said: "Taking the corset off and wearing a gym tunic was an incredibly liberating moment."

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The realization, captured in “One Thing Right,” was both liberating and intimidating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

His knees scraped against the concrete, and the brief flare of pain felt liberating.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro