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emancipation

[ih-man-suh-pey-shuhn] / ɪˌmæn səˈpeɪ ʃən /


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That same year, Russia's Manizha performed a song about the pressures faced by women and women's emancipation, which stirred controversy in her home country.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Edmond Albius devised the hand-pollination technique that made vanilla cultivation commercially viable; he died in poverty after emancipation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

The ad's originality lay in the fact it did not directly show off the product, but instead promised a new world of emancipation for consumers thanks to home computers.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Less attention has been paid to the ways in which enslaved people strove for emancipation through acts of resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

Women exchanged the maids’ uniforms of subservience for the white chadors of emancipation.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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