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liberate

[lib-uh-rayt] / ˈlɪb əˌreɪt /


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Miller describes the UK as "more than a political arrangement", saying each helped to develop industries, abolish the slave trade, liberate Europe, and shape the modern world.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Like many of their peers, they longed for a secular and democratic government that would liberate them from the regime’s draconian social rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

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 2020, DirecTV and AT&T struck a deal with Charter, not so much to liberate Dodgers fans as to help the parties maintain a shrinking base of subscribers amid a proliferation of video options.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

I believed that it was an undiluted African nationalism, not Marxism or multiracialism, that would liberate us.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

"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

And even him taking that step sends such a positive message and liberates others to be able to do the same.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024

More poignantly, it critiques how race, gender and genre have limited our ability to see her talent and, by doing so, liberates her from ever again having to prove her singular impact on American culture.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 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 Stéphane Leduc

You see everybody on camera all the time, and so it liberated every woman in the room to “OK, good, she knows her hair is going crazy right now.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

“He’s liberated from his own shyness when he’s trying to solve the puzzle,” Mitchell said recently over Zoom from London.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Perhaps being so far behind, and expected to capitulate, liberated Pakistan.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

It also suggests that a far, far better adaptation might have been possible if the considerable talent behind the “Tale” had been more constructively liberated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Yet, Chief Buthelezi had consistently called for my release and refused to negotiate with the government until I and other political prisoners were liberated.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

It was a very liberating album to make.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 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

Each in his way was in the process of liberating himself from the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

No big battle, no surrender, no foreign troops liberating them.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren


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