- past tense form of emancipate.
- past participle of emancipate.
emancipated
Example Sentences
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The author then moves on to Britain, which emancipated itself through the Protestant Reformation and became what he calls a “property despotism.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
When Buzzard was in the 11th grade at Santa Maria High School, she filed a petition to be emancipated from Miranda, according to court records.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
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
“The German musical has emancipated itself from its American role models in a clever, mature and very Berlin way,” the paper’s critic, Hellmut Kotschenreuther, wrote.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2023
“None with whom the Picketts have a good relationship. Davis has been declared an emancipated minor by the state and is his brother’s legal guardian.”
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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