enfranchising

verb

present participle of enfranchise
as in freeing
to set free (as from slavery or confinement) in a way, modern labor-saving appliances enfranchised people, giving them much more leisure time

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Recent Examples of enfranchising The Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, as Michael Waldman writes in The Fight to Vote, was even blunter than Sumner about the necessity of enfranchising Black men. — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enfranchising
  1. freeing
  2. liberating
  3. rescuing
  4. releasing
  5. emancipating
  6. saving
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  • There are no Zeus or Poseidon or Ino or Heracles sightings, and the herald Hermes, who has a pretty big role in Homer’s tale — freeing Odysseus from Calypso and giving him a magical herb to shield him from Circe’s spells — is nowhere to be found.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 July 2026
  • Because only in intense, rarefied states will our illusions finally drop away, like redundant scaffolding, freeing us to perceive life on a more visceral level.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026
Definition of freeing
Verb
  • Shedding infrastructure is liberating only if there's a real relationship or service advantage underneath it.
    — Mushfig Aliyev, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Spirits of independence can be found throughout the week starting with two progressive and liberating comedy shows on Sunday, Joke Sistas and Comedy Bang!
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
Definition of liberating
Verb
  • The chance of rescuing the legend whose equipment provides around a quarter of the world’s electricity and whose engines power about three-quarters of commercial flights worldwide clearly stirred the ultra-competitive Culp to action.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 July 2026
  • Messi, on the other hand, delivered assists and goals, and at times was almost single-handedly winning, or rescuing, matches for Argentina.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of rescuing
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  • Tribute to Joshua McKee On Friday morning, hours before releasing basic details on McKee’s death, BPU on Facebook also posted a tribute and photo array in honor of the veteran lineman, while thanking the community for its support.
    — Eric Adler July 18, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2026
  • During the exercise, crews loaded 500-pound BDU-50 and 2,000-pound BDU-56 practice bombs onto the aircraft before releasing them over the Mountain Home bombing range.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
Definition of releasing
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  • After mutual suspicion, the two arrived at a reluctant truce in which Paul was free to bring non-Jews into the Jesus movement, emancipating them from Jewish ritual, while the original Jerusalem circle continued to keep kosher, circumcise, and all the rest.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Definition of emancipating
Verb
  • But after seven months of testing the technology, many of Lafayette’s officers found the tool was wasting time, not saving it, emails obtained by Forbes show.
    — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Few contemporary filmmakers have been as vocal about saving the movies as Christopher Nolan.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 22 July 2026
Definition of saving

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