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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  • According to the Joey’s Friends website, the organization focuses on rescuing animals that have experienced abuse, neglect or the threat of euthanasia in overcrowded shelters.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2026
  • While rescuing the siblings, Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) is captured by Luke’s forces and taken to the titan Atlas at an enemy stronghold in California, where she is forced to bear the weight of the sky in place of goddess Artemis or Luke.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 2 Nov. 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
Definition of enfranchising
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  • Deputies began life-saving measures and called for medics from the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Moving Money Around The party’s top Senate super PAC pulled down several weeks’ worth of ads in those two Southern states in recent weeks, per information shared with Semafor, saving $22 million in North Carolina and $11 million in Georgia.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 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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  • Putin’s army proved unable to advance on the frontline; Ukrainian troops even made incremental progress in liberating territory.
    — Michael McFaul, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Which is why it’s been liberating to step out of the spotlight.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of liberating
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  • Other warning signs include open or enlarging wounds and infestations around an animal's nose, mouth, ears, eyes or genital areas.
    — Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Kim has boosted his military and diplomatic credentials in recent years by enlarging his nuclear arsenal and aligning with Russia over its war against Ukraine.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of enlarging
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