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Nepali families were holding symbolic funeral ceremonies to "liberate the souls" of loved ones missing since deadly flash floods swept away their villages and homes in the Himalayan region a week ago.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

In 2016, when the battle to liberate the city began, I set out to film a documentary, “The Battle of Mosul.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Vandalizing the cameras is a sharp rebuttal to Silicon Valley talk about how technology will liberate us from the limitations of the physical world.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

He asks his mother to run through the death scene with a different sequence of movements and introduces the accompaniment of George Crotty on cello to liberate her performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

If Joey is successful, the American and Filipino fighters will be able to liberate the prisoners at Santo Tomas.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

"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

“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

Here is the real thing, where video liberates rather than imprisons all-enveloping music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

The little plants grow in the drip of the snow-banks, where the melting ice gradually liberates the tufts of evergreen leaves.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Slavery in New York expanded under British rule but declined during the first decades of the 19th century, with most enslaved people liberated before 1830.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

After the US-led coalition liberated Kuwait in 1991, American troops dug in.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

The album begs the question: What’s a “normal life” to a liberated woman?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The New Zealander liberated them, providing a freedom they knew how to use.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Early in 1945, we knew that the Soviet army had liberated Auschwitz and Kraków.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

In some ways, the collective skepticism was liberating: Whiteman and Baum, who died in 1998, could let their imaginations run wild.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"I'd love to see artificial intelligence winning wars, liberating territories."

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

It was nerve-racking for her to get on stage, in front of friends and family members and talk about her struggles with mental health but it was also liberating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

"We hope that it will happen as soon as possible and we hope that the cooling, liberating rain that the forecasters do not yet see coming will arrive."

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

And for the boys themselves, their immersion in theater, and with Volpe, is liberating.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove