liberty
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But DeLorenzo’s biggest liberty comes in the final scene, which he calls his own “composition.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
And McColl was sentenced to 220 hours of unpaid work, 18 months probation, and an 11-month restriction of liberty order, as a direct alternative to custody.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Tisa Wenger, a professor of American religious history at Yale Divinity School, said religious liberty has long been understood as “an all-American ideal that many Americans are very proud of.”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
We transformed the Supreme Court’s “Nothing to see here” into an avowal of the freedom to marry under the Constitution’s double helix of liberty and equality for all.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
What standing could such dedicated pacifists enjoy among veterans of the Revolution, who, as Jackson put it, “at the risk of their lives and fortunes, secured to the community their liberty and property?”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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An accuracy check on that Bourdain biopic: We’ve mentioned here before that Slate’s movie critic loved Tony—but how true is the film, and what liberties did it take with the facts?
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Silkie Carlo, the director of civil liberties group Big Brother Watch, has called for Sainsbury's to scrap the technology, arguing that it is "treating customers like criminals".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“There are some severe civil liberties infringements going on,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Perhaps for the economic opportunities enabled by America’s free-market system and government safeguards for individual liberties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
“Chaplain,” he announced with magisterial rigidity, “we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men. Are you guilty or innocent?”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Vocabulary lists containing liberty
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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The Bill of Rights
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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