liberation
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For one side, death meant liberation, however short-term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
They defended the status quo against various liberation movements and labor coalitions, fighting to keep everything as it had always been in service of the people who most benefited from the old arrangement.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Tupac's mother Afeni was a Black Panther and he grew up around the Black liberation movement.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
My hope for this country: Revolution, liberation, abolition, community care, mutual aid, public services that actually allow people to thrive instead of like constant competition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The central doctrine of liberation theology was that the Catholic Church had an obligation to provide a “preferential option for the poor.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The early 1960s were a manic hinge moment in American culture, between the Cold War and the Vietnam War, civil rights and Black power, old repressions and burgeoning liberations.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
Indigenous communities - many disenchanted by years of unmet government promises - have long histories of occupations, which they call liberations.
From Reuters ● Sep. 30, 2022
The problem is that societies frequently reconsider these essential stories as they undergo invasions, liberations, revolutions, and quieter forms of evolution and change.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021
And, come to think of it, are the “light” and the “white gleam” in those lyrics actual liberations or symbols of a colonized consciousness?
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2019
Oh, the magnificence of marriage, thought Ingeborg, beating her hands together, the splendour of its liberations!
From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
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