emancipated

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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

The series also asserts that Schneider was not only heavily involved in Bynes’ professional life but in her personal life as well, including trying to help Bynes get emancipated from her parents.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024

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

“The German musical has emancipated itself from its American role models in a clever, mature and very Berlin way,” the paper’s critic, Hellmut Kotschenreuther, wrote.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Or maybe these emancipated black men were just telling their listeners, especially the white ones, things they wanted to hear.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis