emancipate
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“She’s a Black woman who found ways to liberate and emancipate herself in this society, in this world, on her own terms, and that’s what I take away from her legacy,” said Christovale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
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
Lafayette had already attempted without success to convince George Washington to emancipate his slaves and allow them to live in freedom on an island Lafayette offered to purchase.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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“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
Davis makes history — Fremont emancipates in Missouri — The Cabinet.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
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
For Pontormo, who studied with Leonardo da Vinci and was influenced by Michelangelo and Dürer, it’s the painting that shows him stylistically emancipated from those giants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Abraham practically brings the house down with “Independently Owned,” an anthem to her character’s emancipated spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Now about fifteen years old—too young to be emancipated under Pennsylvania law—Isaac was apprenticed to a tinsmith, a Philadelphia Quaker.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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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
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
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
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
But he soon improved upon the practice of the time, illustrated by J. van Schoreel and Antonio Moro, and, emancipating himself gradually from tradition, produced pictures remarkable for truth and dexterity of hand.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
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