liberation
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But Haitians understand the horror of zombies to be one of dispossession, a curse enacted by enslavers that binds victims to mindless servitude, denying them liberation in the afterlife.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
"Occupation, liberation, bombardments… honestly, how could it be worse? We've already seen it all."
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Many of these ideas were offered as doctrines of liberation but ended in tragedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
For Espinoza, that liberation meant reclaiming a femininity she had once feared, by drawing from drag culture and the ’80s vogue tradition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“I was transferred to the Stutthof concentration camp just a month before liberation, and I met friends of his, who told me that he had died the day before I arrived.”
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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Indigenous communities - many disenchanted by years of unmet government promises - have long histories of occupations, which they call liberations.
From Reuters ● Sep. 30, 2022
“Notre-Dame is our history, our literature, part of our psyche, the place of all our great events, our epidemics, our wars, our liberations, the epicenter of our lives,” he said.
From Fox News ● Apr. 16, 2019
The head medic, Naseem Qasim, a thirty-three-year-old major with a master’s degree in microbiology, had served with the 9th Division throughout the liberations of Ramadi and Falluja, where he’d been shot in the hip.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 29, 2017
It keeps the players connected to the liberations of fandom, their feeling of awe inside the music rather than ownership of it.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2014
We shall have to assume that those liberations of pleasure and pain automatically regulate the outlet of the occupation processes.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud
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