disburden

Example Sentences

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At one point, Faye thinks that the storytelling impulse itself “might spring from the desire to avoid guilt,” to “disburden ourselves of responsibility.”

From New York Times

After all this, The Blot was “a conscious attempt to get back to a more straightforward storytelling”; it is mostly “disburdened of social ethical frameworks”.

From The Guardian

The prevailing trend of our time is, it seems, a disburdening of the past.

From The New Yorker

The Internet may have freed many to disburden themselves of their views.

From New York Times

The advantage here consists in the disburdening of the memory; an end immensely furthered by the written preservation of the natural constants.

From Project Gutenberg