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emancipation

[ih-man-suh-pey-shuhn] / ɪˌmæn səˈpeɪ ʃən /


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The ad's originality lay in the fact it did not directly show off the product, but instead promised a new world of emancipation for consumers thanks to home computers.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Maybe it’s the emancipation of women in the last 50 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

His early evasions on emancipation, then, were less weakness than strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

For the first 15 months of the Civil War, Douglass filled lecture halls and newspapers with the same plea: Make emancipation the central aim.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

That said, even though no formal proposal for a gradual emancipation program came before the Congress in 1790, all the elements for such a program were present in the debates.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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