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liberation

[lib-uh-ray-shuhn] / ˌlɪb əˈreɪ ʃən /


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In this scene, the song represents liberation, friendship, joy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

"Occupation, liberation, bombardments… honestly, how could it be worse? We've already seen it all."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

“This week was indicative of some restiveness and a desire among the base to see concrete policy for Palestinian liberation and quicker progress on some policing promises,” said Gordillo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Her parents met when they both fought in the long liberation war that saw Eritrea gain independence from Ethiopia in 1993.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

"Rausch," I say, the first word since I lost my voice on the day of liberation.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

The early 1960s were a manic hinge moment in American culture, between the Cold War and the Vietnam War, civil rights and Black power, old repressions and burgeoning liberations.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

Indigenous communities - many disenchanted by years of unmet government promises - have long histories of occupations, which they call liberations.

From Reuters ● Sep. 30, 2022

And, come to think of it, are the “light” and the “white gleam” in those lyrics actual liberations or symbols of a colonized consciousness?

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2019

“Notre-Dame is our history, our literature, part of our psyche, the place of all our great events, our epidemics, our wars, our liberations, the epicenter of our lives,” he said.

From Fox News ● Apr. 16, 2019

We shall have to assume that those liberations of pleasure and pain automatically regulate the outlet of the occupation processes.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud


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