independence

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Your children will start school and gain more emotional and intellectual independence.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

Clergy preached independence from their pulpits, framing liberty and equality as moral obligations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

"So maybe this will help people to re-evaluate that in terms of energy security and energy independence rather than just looking at it strictly from an environmental point of view."

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Iran was the first country to recognise Pakistan after independence in 1947.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

But the US didn’t look like that until a century after independence.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz