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emancipate

[ih-man-suh-peyt] / ɪˈmæn səˌpeɪt /


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Bynes' home environment was so troubling that she attempted to emancipate from her parents when she was around 16 or 17.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2024

Following the French Revolution, much of Western Europe began to emancipate their Jews—but by the mid-19th century, it became clear that the initial promise of emancipation had not brought about the dreamed-for safety.

From Slate Dec. 10, 2023

How were you able to emancipate yourself from shame?

From New York Times Dec. 6, 2023

Even if there were an evolutionary link between meat consumption and becoming human, we should be able to emancipate ourselves from it today.

From Scientific American Oct. 25, 2023

The higher figure produces a total cost of about $140 million to emancipate the entire slave population in 1790.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“When I do that, it emancipates me. When I put it in my films, I get rid of it.”

From New York Times Jan. 27, 2023

“He emancipates and lifts you up to live your American Dream.”

From Washington Post Aug. 24, 2020

And the third, optimistically entitled ‘The robot emancipates itself’, explores their present status and looks to the future.

From Nature Apr. 26, 2018

Is a society that, in many ways, emancipates women from marriage, and gives them sexual freedom, actually producing glorified 1950s housewives who have no choices other than motherhood?

From The Guardian Apr. 1, 2017

Whatever helps, releases, emancipates, makes free, glorifies, makes sacred, enlarges, enricheth Human Life, that is the Right and Good, tho' persecuted by private interests; that is the Truth, tho' withstood by dead men's creeds.

From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis

The 54-year-old pastor, a former rector of the Christian University of Sumba, wants atas to be emancipated.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

My children received survivor’s benefits until they emancipated.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

The author then moves on to Britain, which emancipated itself through the Protestant Reformation and became what he calls a “property despotism.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Theo is far more psychologically evolved, but he has his own blind spots that provoke Sally, who’s more emancipated than Sylvia but less professionally assured and just as unstable.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2026

“None with whom the Picketts have a good relationship. Davis has been declared an emancipated minor by the state and is his brother’s legal guardian.”

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

She ran away to New York as a young teen, and spent time in the Louisiana Training Institute for Girls in Pineville before emancipating at age 18.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2022

“I Color Myself Different” is really about the emancipating power of self-love.

From Washington Post Apr. 6, 2022

“When kids are emancipating, they want to leave everything to do with their youth behind,” she said.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2022

Brown, who gained attention with her innovative bestseller "Good and Cheap," aptly titles her emancipating latest work "Good Enough. A Cookbook."

From Salon Jan. 16, 2022

Even Lincoln's proclamation emancipating the slaves in the seceding states did not soften the asperity of the old-time anti-slavery advocate.

From Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) by Walsh, William Shepard




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