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liberate

[lib-uh-reyt] / ˈlɪb əˌreɪt /


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A cleaning tip to liberate your home from sticker tyranny: If you have a kiddo in your life, you know that stickers can magically appear on just about every surface within their arm’s reach.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

Yes, he was so wedded to it, this idea that different, new mediums liberate the ones that come before.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

"It just felt like my dad was known for helping liberate this town and these villages. I saw him as a war hero," he said.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

Tax and labor reforms and a deregulation blitz have gone a long way to liberate entrepreneurs.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2026

“We are proud in Norvelt that our men and women fought in the war to liberate oppressed people and allow their found voices to record the history of that terrible time.”

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

"And then such an extreme event takes place, and in a way, liberates everything -- all the emotions, all the ideas and the passions, all the terrible things."

From Barron's Apr. 3, 2026

The shift liberates her holiday shopping, says Nussen, lead lighting designer at Consumer’s Lighting, a company she runs with her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

“She sang because she wanted to feel alive, and she wanted to feel free, and she wanted to feel connected to her faith — and that already just liberates the performer.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2025

“Sometimes I feel like a little girl — I play, I have fun and I laugh. Onstage, I say everything through rap. It liberates me: When I get a microphone, I’m a different person.”

From New York Times Jan. 27, 2023

It is the small amount of work required to turn the key which liberates an indeterminate quantity of potential energy.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

But Twain’s greatest discovery was his gloriously unshackled literary style, which was inspired by local dialects and liberated from European refinements.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Now 77, Sandoval feels he was liberated by the power of jazz.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Born into a nominally liberated time for women, our Gen X girlhood was a specific kind of confusing: Yes, we were weaned on “Free to Be You and Me.”

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

"I felt liberated when it was being shaved," she says.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

He knew the fish in his tank wouldn’t survive without filtration or food, so he reached inside and liberated them.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

Her last true classic, it was a hymn to the liberating power of the club.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

The realization, captured in “One Thing Right,” was both liberating and intimidating.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

It is an act of truth-telling that can be costly, liberating and sacred all at once.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2026

Project Freedom is not going to succeed in liberating the trapped tankers, said Daniel Sternoff, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

From MarketWatch May 5, 2026

And I happen to have a machine whose sole purpose is liberating oxygen from C02.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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