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take the liberty
verb as in risk
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Example Sentences
The couple, who also own the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, was hit with a $500,000 league fine for hiring private planes to take the Liberty to several away games and a brief vacation in Napa during the 2021 season.
“Nothing screams I love America like red, white and you, a college conservative. Take the liberty to celebrate Valentine’s Day any way you want!” the guide advises.
Donwell and Randalls had received their invitation, and none had come for her father and herself; and Mrs. Weston’s accounting for it with “I suppose they will not take the liberty with you; they know you do not dine out,” was not quite sufficient.
“Dear me! It’s quite a story, and shall be saved till dinner-time. And now let me take the liberty of asking you a question. How did you come there, that day?”
“That’s well! Now, doctor, I shall take the liberty of administering a dose myself, on my own responsibility. I got this cordial at Rome, of an Italian charlatan—a fellow you would have kicked, Carter. It is not a thing to be used indiscriminately, but it is good upon occasion: as now, for instance. Jane, a little water.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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