as in emancipation
the act of setting free from slavery
the liberation of the slaves was one of the key results of the Civil War
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Recent Examples of liberation
Panel moderator Mohammed Ali (Mo) Naqvi, the acclaimed filmmaker and Crescent Collective co-founder, who also serves as chair of the Pakistan Oscar selection committee, set the tone with a pointed observation about narrative liberation.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2025
Beyond Utopia and Dystopia The popular discourse around AI oscillates between utopian dreams of liberation and dystopian fears of obsolescence.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
My dad has said that for him, one of the gifts of raising the grandchildren has been a liberation from expectations — both for his own life and the children’s.
—Frances Dodds Samantha Desz Krish Seenivasan Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Alfie’s liberation doesn’t go well for him, but his public disgrace can’t undo the goodwill he’s established through his championing of art.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2025
Beyond Utopia and Dystopia The popular discourse around AI oscillates between utopian dreams of liberation and dystopian fears of obsolescence.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
My dad has said that for him, one of the gifts of raising the grandchildren has been a liberation from expectations — both for his own life and the children’s.
—Frances Dodds Samantha Desz Krish Seenivasan Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Alfie’s liberation doesn’t go well for him, but his public disgrace can’t undo the goodwill he’s established through his championing of art.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for liberation
emancipation
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But as the nineteenth century plodded onward, abolitionists had developed increasingly persuasive arguments for emancipation, provoking slaveowners to answer with a vicious theory of Black inferiority to defend bondage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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After all, abstraction had been in the service of spiritual liberation and social emancipation since its inception, and had always appeared in opposition to the totally reified world of Duchamp’s readymade.—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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“Liberation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liberation. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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