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liberation

[lib-uh-rey-shuhn] / ˌlɪb əˈreɪ ʃən /


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After Oleksandrivka’s liberation, Pekaliuk returned home to a destroyed library there.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Tupac's mother Afeni was a Black Panther and he grew up around the Black liberation movement.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

That sense of liberation is clearly behind Del Tredici’s “Final Alice,” an hourlong romp around the ending of “Alice in Wonderland” for superhuman soprano and orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Every Sunday, percussionists, dancers and everyday residents of the US capital gather in a Washington park for a drum circle -- a decades-old tradition that historically celebrated Black liberation.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

I froze, just able to see the hallway and my path to liberation out of the corner of my left eye.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

Indigenous communities - many disenchanted by years of unmet government promises - have long histories of occupations, which they call liberations.

From Reuters Sep. 30, 2022

Since then, fans have dreamed about a follow-up, one focused not on the Don Drapers of the world, but on the women whose limitations and liberations were the through-line of the series.

From New York Times Apr. 14, 2020

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

“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

I think I speak accurately when I say, that hitherto every sacrifice for the emancipation of slaves has been made by Southern men; and many hundred thousand dollars have been expended in such liberations.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott




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