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adjective

as in released

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verb

past tense of parole
as in rescued

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Recent Examples of paroled
Verb
Despite a recent spate of violent offenders being paroled at relatively high rates under the Mattis decision, the overall parole rate has shrunk from 65% to 57% under Chair Angelo Gomez. — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 22 Apr. 2026 He was paroled in January 2010 and discharged from parole in July 2012. — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paroled
  1. freed
  2. rescued
  3. liberated
  4. ransomed
  5. emancipated
  6. redeemed
  7. saved
  8. discharged
Adjective
  • The freed captives, mostly women and children, were among over 300 kidnap victims freed by Nigerian forces this week.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • In fact, the vast majority of freed people remained in the South.
    — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
Definition of freed
Verb
  • Four people were rescued and one person remained missing Wednesday night after the crash of a medevac helicopter off Catalina Island, authorities said.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Video released Wednesday morning captured the moments when a Kansas City Police Department detective and a Clay County Sheriff’s deputy rescued a man from a pickup truck that was engulfed in flames.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of rescued
Adjective
  • The slide-out kitchen stores away under the bed so as not to take up any of the liberated floor space.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The liberated bundle then touches down somewhere else in the genome, where native DNA repair processes paste it in.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • What Andert argues in his video is that LINXS has effectively ransomed LAX to the tune of $880 million — so far — to complete the supposedly less than 3 percent that remains to be built on the project.
    — Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026
  • After a nearby hospital is hacked and ransomed, the higher-ups decide to defend its system by shutting it down, which means business must be conducted in the old-fashioned, paper-and-clipboards way.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Definition of ransomed
Verb
  • Winter was legally emancipated and declared an adult at age 17 in 2015.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • In 1775, his first enslaver sold him to the commander of Framingham's Minute Men, who emancipated him, and Salem went on to fight at Lexington and Concord.
    — Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026
Definition of emancipated
Verb
  • Keep in mind, it can be applied to both in-store and online purchases, and can be redeemed twice.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The Offer is non-transferable and cannot be exchanged or redeemed for cash or any other product, benefit, or alternative.
    — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of redeemed
Verb
  • Live Healthy Chicago aims to turn 130/80 and 1,000 into a movement transforming a silent epidemic into a celebration of lives saved.
    — Garth Walker, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026
  • It's already been tried out on 22 aircraft in Lufthansa Group's own Boeing 777 fleet, where it is reported to have saved up to 19 tonnes of fuel per day.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of saved
Verb
  • Once, at their home, Randolph was cleaning his guns when one discharged, almost hitting Allmon.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Set in modern-day Buffalo, Don’t Go Gentle follows Tanya Jenkins, a mother and Army medic who was honorably discharged.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of discharged

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