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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

Like many of their peers, they longed for a secular and democratic government that would liberate them from the regime’s draconian social rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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 2020, DirecTV and AT&T struck a deal with Charter, not so much to liberate Dodgers fans as to help the parties maintain a shrinking base of subscribers amid a proliferation of video options.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Kaz hoped the Shu boy he was holding on to was a surprisingly young Bo Yul-Bayur and not some hapless prisoner Nina and Matthias had decided to liberate.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

"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

As Flora grows closer to Jeff, who represents an escapist fantasy from her dreary Dublin life, Carney liberates him from the screen of her laptop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2023

The moisture, to be sure, liberates heat upon condensing, but as condensation occurs above the earth's surface, much of the heat escapes into space.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington

“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

The setup implies that Carrie—intellectually curious, a clandestine book reader, a guileless innocent for whom Ms. Howell makes us ache—is being liberated from Margaret’s fundamentalist penal colony.

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

Eventually they were liberated by American troops and Hay returned to the UK, via Reims, on 4 May 1945.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

White Deer gave us a little statue of the Buddha-to-be, a happy, laughing god who would exist in the future when all mankind had been liberated from the material world.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

It was a very liberating album to make.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

In some ways, the collective skepticism was liberating: Whiteman and Baum, who died in 1998, could let their imaginations run wild.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Deciding how many days you want to teach yoga or bartend, and how much consulting work you want to take on, can feel liberating — as though you’re the master of your own time.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Washington marched into Boston, liberating the city, and then led most of his army to New York City.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen


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