paroling

verb

present participle of parole
as in rescuing

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  1. rescuing
  2. ransoming
  3. enfranchising
  4. saving
  5. emancipating
  6. liberating
  7. enlarging
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  • The crew took part in rescuing a 47-year-old man who was pulled out of the rubble eight days after the quakes hit, lifting the spirits and morale of rescuers who up until then were primarily uncovering human remains.
    — Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • Members of the Perth Amboy Fire Department Marine Unit and FMBA Local 58/258, chapters of a firefighting union, also assisted in rescuing the firefighters from the channel.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 7 July 2026
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  • Abu Sayyaf was particularly notorious for kidnapping and ransoming foreigners.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
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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
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  • The state’s border protection stations, dog teams and high risk pest exclusion programs show long-term success, preventing invasive insects from entering and establishing in California, while saving the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
    — Lizzie Kane July 9, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
  • Many credit Latvala for saving the Republicans from oblivion by providing party leaders the data tools, expertise and technology needed to overthrow Democrats and launch a reign of dominance that continues today.
    — Michael Van Sickler, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
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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
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  • 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
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  • Attention, for Weil and for Murdoch, is a way of enlarging one’s desire for good.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • At least that seems to be the message from our winners this year in aviation, where the focus is just as much on technology gains and cabin refinement as on enlarging the airframe.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 18 June 2026
Definition of enlarging
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