emancipate

“About 1,200 kids a year emancipate from foster care,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

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

The New York Herald said of Lincoln’s order: “While the proclamation leaves slavery untouched where his decree can be enforced, he emancipates slaves where his decree cannot be enforced.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2019

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

In this way man emancipates himself from climate, and at the same time he avoids also the heavy work with the hot-beds, and he saves both in buying much less manure and in work.

From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

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

Her third great-grandfather Dean Harris was likely born into slavery in Georgia around 1835 and was emancipated after the Civil War.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2024

“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

Latching on to the emancipating power of the word "semi," she wrote a "Semi-Homemade" cookbook, and then another.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024

It also calls it “an amalgamation of cultures, times and ideas, emancipating them from the limits of regular classifications.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

Robbie said she reveled in the chance to put a different spin on Quinn, considering the newfound freedom she now has since emancipating herself from the emotional grips of Mr. J.

From Fox News ● Aug. 5, 2021

“So, I told my parents about it and they wrote me a note, emancipating me as a minor, and I lived with this couple we met at Zuma Beach.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2019

"My little girl," said the Count of Plouernel haughtily, "you are emancipating yourself prodigiously."

From The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Eug?ne Sue