liberation

noun

ˌli-bə-ˈrā-shən How to pronounce liberation (audio)
Definition of liberationnext
as in emancipation
the act of setting free from slavery the liberation of the slaves was one of the key results of the Civil War

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Recent Examples of liberation The director Peter Sellars, who staged the piece’s first production last year, also worked with me on assembling the libretto, and Peter is a force of liberation. — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026 In 1944, a few weeks after the liberation of France, Georges Zurabishvili, who had emigrated to France from Georgia in the 1920s, was bundled into a car by three men with machine guns. — Tobias Grey, Air Mail, 10 Oct. 2026 Pica said a red lip felt like the most direct way to express that sense of liberation. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 But since these girls don’t have anything that looks like conventional adulthood waiting for them, the film wisely steers them away from maturity and toward a kind of spiritual liberation. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for liberation
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emancipation
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  • Marked by restless lines, these works depict a woman tentatively emerging from a cocoon in a ritual of transformation and emancipation.
    — Tatiane de Assis, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Their courtroom victory in January 1856 led to one of the largest legal emancipations in US history, and certainly the largest anywhere west of Texas.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of emancipation

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