liberation
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There he began developing the theories that would direct his life and work—the idea, for instance, that a “talented tenth” would lead black America to liberation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Reduced to 40 percent of seats after a drubbing in the 2024 general election, Nelson Mandela's former liberation movement has been forced into an often-uneasy coalition with nine other parties.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
A minute or so after that, Tynecastle erupted to the sound of liberation from the torture of that first half.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
“Liberation” is a memory play, in which a daughter attempts to understand her mother’s past as a member of a female liberation group in 1970s Ohio.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
At the bottom of the Depression, when wrenching need narrowed the parameters of experience as never before, the liberation offered by the racehorse was, to young men like Pollard and Woolf, a siren song.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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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
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
“The Help” relegates the turbulence of the civil-rights era to a chaste backdrop for the vibrant liberations of its affluent housewives.
From The New Yorker ● May 31, 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
One may legitimately maintain, with Edith Wyatt, that the traditional methods of English verse are to the true artist not oppressions but liberations.
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
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