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as in freeing
to set free (as from slavery or confinement)
authorities eventually unfettered the menagerie of wild animals that had been kept illegally as pets
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Several years later, then-President Abraham Lincoln, a member of the Republican Party, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing all slaves living in Confederate states who were against the Union.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Mar. 2026 -
After freeing a man who was convicted in a pizza delivery driver’s slaying, the state’s Parole Board has rejected releasing an accomplice who fatally stabbed the food courier.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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But for weeks, Campbell’s office has cited a range of exemptions in state law as justification for not releasing records about the grand jury’s activities to news outlets, including the Herald/Times.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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Instead of releasing emissions into the atmosphere, the plant captures biogenic CO2 produced during waste processing.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Mar. 2026
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Today the artist, who is of Māori and Scottish descent, sees the irony of her first encounter — liberating the bird from a symbol of the culture that caused its demise.—
Tom Page,
CNN Money,
19 Mar. 2026
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But is liberating to be able to laugh about such terrible things on screen.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2026
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As gangs continue to expand and consolidate territorial control, journalists remain in growing danger, according to the commission and other press freedom groups.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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That sense of freedom—of the gaze, of emotion, and of expression—is part of what made Farrokhzad the Iranian New Wave’s confrontational exemplar.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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Cindy Mosling, who shifted from an interior design career to almost 50 years pioneering wildlife rehabilitation in the Jacksonville area and rescuing thousands of ill or injured birds, has died after a brief battle with cancer.—
Beth Reese Cravey,
Florida Times-Union,
18 Mar. 2026
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Police officers rushed to the accident, rescuing five people through flames and thick, black smoke.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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Another reorientation arrived in the seventies and eighties, in response to gay liberation, feminism, and greater workplace equality.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Like the Lenten journey, the onset of Passover commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian servitude, the onset of a 40-year march homeward to the land of promise.—
Michael Pfleger,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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That’s when something tightened, a brief, instinctual clam-closing and then loosening again just as fast.—
Dawn Lerman,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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Lawmakers will debate bills related to loosening gun regulations at colleges in at least eight states this year, including Florida, Louisiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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Monumental Baptist Church is marking 200 years of service, a legacy that stretches back generations — long before emancipation and just decades after the nation's founding.—
Wakisha Bailey,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Some view these people’s unemployment as the beginning of their emancipation.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Unfettering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfettering. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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