emancipate

“She’s a Black woman who found ways to liberate and emancipate herself in this society, in this world, on her own terms, and that’s what I take away from her legacy,” said Christovale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

Following the French Revolution, much of Western Europe began to emancipate their Jews—but by the mid-19th century, it became clear that the initial promise of emancipation had not brought about the dreamed-for safety.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2023

How were you able to emancipate yourself from shame?

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

Even if there were an evolutionary link between meat consumption and becoming human, we should be able to emancipate ourselves from it today.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2023

Struggling under piles of debt and in ill health, an aging Madison resolved to emancipate “his people.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

“When I do that, it emancipates me. When I put it in my films, I get rid of it.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

“He emancipates and lifts you up to live your American Dream.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2020

And the third, optimistically entitled ‘The robot emancipates itself’, explores their present status and looks to the future.

From Nature ● Apr. 26, 2018

Is a society that, in many ways, emancipates women from marriage, and gives them sexual freedom, actually producing glorified 1950s housewives who have no choices other than motherhood?

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2017

He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

From God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

The 54-year-old pastor, a former rector of the Christian University of Sumba, wants atas to be emancipated.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Now all my kids have been emancipated for seven years.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026

For Pontormo, who studied with Leonardo da Vinci and was influenced by Michelangelo and Dürer, it’s the painting that shows him stylistically emancipated from those giants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

There is a lot of doublespeak, that as women, we have never been as emancipated and free to do what we want as we are today.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

She felt a certain amount of responsibility to Ernestine and the younger girls, since she knew they would never be emancipated until she paved the way.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Latching on to the emancipating power of the word "semi," she wrote a "Semi-Homemade" cookbook, and then another.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024

A brilliant colorist, he became known for emancipating his paintings from the flat rectilinearity imposed by wood stretchers.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2022

Robbie said she reveled in the chance to put a different spin on Quinn, considering the newfound freedom she now has since emancipating herself from the emotional grips of Mr. J.

From Fox News ● Aug. 5, 2021

“So, I told my parents about it and they wrote me a note, emancipating me as a minor, and I lived with this couple we met at Zuma Beach.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2019

The Marquis of Sligo, the humane Governor of Jamaica, set a good example by emancipating all his apprentices.

From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child