freeing

Example Sentences

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There was not even one tiny part of me that missed being able to refer to myself as we, so immense was the relief of freeing myself of Vagner.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Focus will also remain on events in the Middle East and whether there is any progress in talks between the U.S. and Iran on ending the conflict in the region and freeing up oil supply.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

With City's midfielders close to each other, Doku - receiving in-field - would turn and drive at the defence, attracting players towards him while freeing up space for Nico O'Reilly on the left flank.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

In Germany, the whale was first seen on the sandbank near the city of Luebeck, on Germany's Baltic Sea coast, before freeing itself but then becoming stuck again several times.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

In adopting the term ‘theory’ the scientists were thus freeing themselves from the philosophers’ preoccupation with truth in so far as it implied knowledge of causes and of what Aristotelian philosophers called substances, or forms.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton