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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

Those who made up what Ms. Gibson calls the great resistance ultimately drove the movement toward emancipation for the millions yearning to be free.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

PARIS—Legendary French actress Brigitte Bardot, an emblem of women’s emancipation and sexual liberation in the 1950s and 1960s, has died.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

But on the sugar islands, while more than two million people were brought over from Africa, there were only 670,000 at emancipation.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson




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