as in to relieve
to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers
worked two jobs to rid himself of debt
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At the same time, the Broward County Commission authorized its own consultant to determine whether to relieve the Sheriff’s Office from law enforcement responsibility for Port Everglades and the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2026 -
Above those words was a video of a masked vandal adding a scatological element to the billboard, a suggestion that the first lady — ad shown in the ad — is relieving herself on an American flag.—
Eve Batey,
Vanity Fair,
31 Jan. 2026
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By smashing together heavy atoms of lead traveling at near-light speeds using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists can create a high-energy environment that briefly frees gluons and quarks from this atomic bondage, recreating the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Though fumble recoveries are mostly about good fortune, the process of freeing the ball can often be technique-driven.—
Jesse Newell,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Voting with no margin for error The funding bill that cleared Congress Tuesday had provisions that appealed to both parties.—
Kevin Freking,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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That was the standard set by the original series, and the reboot clears that bar beyond any reasonable doubt.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Rid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rid. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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