liberty
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But DeLorenzo’s biggest liberty comes in the final scene, which he calls his own “composition.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"We are devastated by the deprivation of liberty being endured in Togo by our partners, our fathers, our sons and our brothers," they said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Taking no responsibility at all for helping to inform the public about the origins of this unique catastrophe for public health, for the public fisc, and for private liberty is Dr. Morens’s former boss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Tisa Wenger, a professor of American religious history at Yale Divinity School, said religious liberty has long been understood as “an all-American ideal that many Americans are very proud of.”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
"I don't know whether you like flowers, sir," the count said, "but I took the liberty of just bringing these roses."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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An accuracy check on that Bourdain biopic: We’ve mentioned here before that Slate’s movie critic loved Tony—but how true is the film, and what liberties did it take with the facts?
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Kennedy remained open to new rights and liberties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
"I'm calling for a social welfare response where police are engaged, social services are engaged, and in extreme circumstances young people may be denied of their liberties but only in extreme circumstances," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But whether it was from Jefferson’s faulty recollections or Trumbull’s artistic liberties, or both, the resulting scene bears little resemblance to how it really was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
It would fall to later composers to take more daring liberties with harmony.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Vocabulary lists containing liberty
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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The Bill of Rights
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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