deliverance
Example Sentences
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"Justice," says the Daily Express, while the front page of the Times speaks of "deliverance for postmasters".
From BBC
In “May December,” Elizabeth’s encounters with Joe seem to offer, at first, hope of deliverance.
From Los Angeles Times
One can’t help but laugh, as though appreciating their deliverance for the cruel cosmic punchline it is.
From Los Angeles Times
Cut to a slow horror zoom into his face, eyebrows crinkled upward as if in a prayer for deliverance.
From New York Times
As replete with literary allusions as “The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn,” “A Pair of Brown Eyes” is the opposite of defiance: it’s MacGowan discovering deliverance in yearning.
From Los Angeles Times
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