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also disenthraled
as in liberated
to set free (as from slavery or confinement)
we must disenthrall ourselves from time-honored ways of doing things, or we will never progress as a society
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The Warsaw doctors likewise wrote about patients whose hearts failed after they were fed; when Allied soldiers liberated the concentration camps, large numbers of emaciated people died after being given high-calorie foods such as chocolate.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025 -
By the end of August, Paris was liberated.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
22 Oct. 2025
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After the man was freed, he was taken to a hospital with serious injuries to his lower body, according to KXAS and The Dallas Morning News.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Disenthralled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disenthralled. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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