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adjective

as in released

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paroled

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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
  • Schiano rescued the program from irrelevance, but modest respectability might be all Rutgers can afford this season — if that.
    — Manny Navarro, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Images of the man and woman being rescued were posted by Nepal’s Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers on Saturday, confirming the rescues.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of rescued
Adjective
  • Instead, Curry connected with fans like me because, as a performer, the man seemed able to do anything, and do it with a kind of liberated abandon and eagerness to entertain.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Chalk it up to the leftover hubris of late-20th-century American empire and the grand illusion of a liberated civilization thriving behind an impenetrable fortress.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 16 Aug. 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
  • This ticket must be redeemed at one of the nine Florida Lottery offices throughout the state.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
  • McDonald's $2 breakfast sandwich deal can be redeemed over the holiday, but the fast-food giant also has travelers covered with a discount on gas at Shell stations.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of redeemed
Verb
  • So you’re left to ask, what about LIV Golf is still being saved?
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • However, gardening and landscape professionals assured us that brown boxwoods can be saved, as long as the plant itself is still alive.
    — The Spruce, The Spruce, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of saved
Verb
  • Sidoarjo health office chief Lakhsmie Herawati Yuwantina said 706 victims had been discharged and were recovering at home.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The homicides happened just two and a half weeks after she was discharged from a psychiatric hospital.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of discharged

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