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

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

There is a lot of doublespeak, that as women, we have never been as emancipated and free to do what we want as we are today.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

“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

Most of the students were children of immigrant Jews who preferred to regard themselves as having been emancipated from the fenced-off ghetto mentality typical of the other Jewish parochial schools in Brooklyn.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok