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manumitting

verb

present participle of manumit
as in freeing
to set free (as from slavery or confinement) though he was an outspoken defender of liberty, this son of Virginia did not manumit his own slaves until he was on his deathbed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manumitting
  1. freeing
  2. releasing
  3. rescuing
  4. liberating
  5. enfranchising
  6. saving
  7. emancipating
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  • United regularly exploited Everton’s 4-1-4-1 system, sending runners down the side of Garner as the solitary No 6 and freeing Rashford in his mismatch up against Rohl.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Her existence is solitary by design, freeing her up to disappear into her studies at all hours of the night, the doors of every institution seemingly always ready to welcome her into its stacks and viewing stations and leather reading chairs.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of freeing
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  • The startup paused some of its AI research and training after the Hugging Face attack, but the security incidents haven't stopped OpenAI from releasing new products.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Exodus is releasing on PC (Steam & Epic Games Store), PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on April 7, 2027.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of releasing
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  • There's a picture of a firefighter rescuing a man out of the rubble, a picture of a stockbroker covered in ash.
    — Mike Kelly, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Technical problems prevented Katalyst from rescuing NASA’s aging Swift observatory.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of rescuing
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  • And by engaging with these powerful militaries, the group reinforced its self-image as a major regional player that was uniquely capable of liberating the Muslim world from corrupting American and Israeli influence.
    — April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
  • And yet, liberating writing from the capitalist ethic has its own value.
    — M. C. Mah, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of liberating
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  • 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
Definition of enfranchising
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  • Oblivious to her own biases about who Leo is and why, Mallory poses as a therapist keen on saving his life, but uses their faux sessions to mine his story for literary gold.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • But Kubiak kept him out of the preseason, saving his first real game action since surgery until the season opener.
    — Sam Warren, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of saving
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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
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“Manumitting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manumitting. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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