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- adjective giving freedom from restriction or restraint.
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- adjective That serves to liberate, especially to
free themind to accept new ideas. - noun
Action of the verb toliberate . - verb Present participle of
liberate .
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Examples
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Marcuse also argued for what he called liberating tolerance, which he defined as tolerance for all ideas coming from the Left and intolerance for any ideas coming from the Right.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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He specialized in "liberating" whatever he needed for the project from the military installations on the island.
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Teasing is awesome, and it must be done in the name of liberating all hearts to feel the less trivial, more outrageous love.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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A paper by Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth Seshadri, and Mehmet Yorukoglu examines the role of modern appliances in liberating women from housework.
Electric Liberation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One of my grand-dads was a Dr involved in liberating allied POW camps in Burma & Thailand, the other bodged aircraft back together from wrecks.
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This is a moral failure in protecting the civilians that we were liberating from a brutal dictator.
Balkinization 2007
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We would go far in liberating all peoples by taking this thinking back into the naturalized setting of the Working Class WITHOUT BELITTLING THEIR INTELLIGENCE!
A PRIMER ON UNLEARNING CLASSISM Maggie Jochild 2007
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This is something the United States government might consider as it rains bombs on our villages in the name of liberating us.
A Woman Among Warlords Malalai Joya 2009
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A paper by Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth Seshadri, and Mehmet Yorukoglu examines the role of modern appliances in liberating women from housework.
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The settlement of the hostage issue also served to remind us all of the remarkable and humane role Canadian diplomats played in liberating United States citizens from that troubled cauldron of conflicting forces.
GHibbs commented on the word liberating
My adjectival use: 'That was a liberating experience.'
August 22, 2011