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liberation

[lib-uh-rey-shuhn] / ˌlɪb əˈreɪ ʃən /


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Divorce rings can also be a way of marking a kind of financial liberation, says Kate Daly, co-founder of Amicable, a UK company offering mediated divorce services.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

That sense of liberation is clearly behind Del Tredici’s “Final Alice,” an hourlong romp around the ending of “Alice in Wonderland” for superhuman soprano and orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Reduced to 40 percent of seats after a drubbing in the 2024 general election, Nelson Mandela's former liberation movement has been forced into an often-uneasy coalition with nine other parties.

From Barron's May 8, 2026

The effect instead is one of claustrophobia, an especially embarrassing misstep when it comes to a work about liberation.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

Maybe we would still be in Holland when liberation came.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

“The Help” relegates the turbulence of the civil-rights era to a chaste backdrop for the vibrant liberations of its affluent housewives.

From The New Yorker May 31, 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 Freud, Sigmund




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