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liberate

[lib-uh-rayt] / ˈlɪb əˌreɪt /


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Miller describes the UK as "more than a political arrangement", saying each helped to develop industries, abolish the slave trade, liberate Europe, and shape the modern world.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

After days of searching shelters and morgues, many Nepali families held symbolic funeral ceremonies on Tuesday to "liberate the souls" of loved ones missing since the deadly flash floods last week.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

In 2016, when the battle to liberate the city began, I set out to film a documentary, “The Battle of Mosul.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Will such scrutiny, in the end, make players uptight or liberate them?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

If Joey is successful, the American and Filipino fighters will be able to liberate the prisoners at Santo Tomas.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

"And then such an extreme event takes place, and in a way, liberates everything -- all the emotions, all the ideas and the passions, all the terrible things."

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

The shift liberates her holiday shopping, says Nussen, lead lighting designer at Consumer’s Lighting, a company she runs with her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

More poignantly, it critiques how race, gender and genre have limited our ability to see her talent and, by doing so, liberates her from ever again having to prove her singular impact on American culture.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2023

Here is the real thing, where video liberates rather than imprisons all-enveloping music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

Here again the hydrosulphite takes up oxygen from the water and liberates the necessary hydrogen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

“He’s liberated from his own shyness when he’s trying to solve the puzzle,” Mitchell said recently over Zoom from London.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

But Milton liberated Satan by sending him to Hell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The operation would continue, he said, “until the country is liberated from the control of terrorist militias.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

"They liberated many Syrian cities and towns, first from the Baathist regime, then from the terrorism of Daesh," he continued, using the Arabic acronym for IS.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Once liberated, I hit Water Street and from there it was a straight trajectory to the fibrillating heart of town.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

But today, female rage is increasingly positioned as understandable and even liberating.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

It was a very liberating album to make.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

But what felt humiliating in the moment became liberating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

"I'd love to see artificial intelligence winning wars, liberating territories."

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

In his reports to the superintendent, Shin found himself telling a wonderfully liberating lie.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden


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