How to Use liberation in a Sentence

liberation

noun
  • The liberation of the city took weeks.
  • Still, Acker had a knack for turning loss into liberation.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The liberation of Kherson last week was largely a jubilant affair.
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  • But for many companies, a prohibition on viewpoint discrimination would come as a liberation, not a restraint.
    Vivek Ramaswamy and Jed Rubenfeld, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Even then, in the end, there’s no going home again — no simple return to one’s family, no automatic liberation, and certainly no chance of a life lived without fear of violence.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2022
  • But the course of the war has shifted since the liberation of Irpin.
    WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • Why, in this project of female liberation, must the men still get all the best bits?
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023
  • With the liberation of the Netherlands, Bloch was free.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The 47th claimed the liberation of Robotyne on Aug. 28.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Lenin fell off it, hurled to the ground by the townsfolk of Lanchkhuti in the first joyful paroxysm of their liberation.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Smith was in prison for the Battle of Stalingrad, and the liberation of Auschwitz.
    Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • That’s a strange kind of liberation: Areas that were once open to all are now closed — seized.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 May 2024
  • To the straight world—and much of the gay world—the leather scene was the unseemly underbelly of gay liberation.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In the 1960s, there were groups working on fat liberation.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • And that shall be the beginning of the liberation of the country and its citizens.
    Jud Newborn, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • At the liberation center, Nazi swastikas were painted on the doors, walls and signage.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 4 Aug. 2023
  • There’s the slightest tinge of sourness to all of the pretty-in-pink sweetness that Barbie puts forth in the name of one doll’s liberation.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023
  • Even with Black Lives Matter, the goal is Black liberation.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The liberation of your soul is the bottom line of what’s at stake, and the evolution of your perspective is about to bear lots of fruit.
    Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2024
  • French was not just a liberation from the agonism of what was going on at home.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The horseback rider waving the black, red and green flag of Black liberation.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • For preachers, that is to preach differently and to teach a gospel of love and liberation.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Friday marks 78 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
    Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Few have done more to advance the cause of leg liberation than Hailey Bieber, who's been skipping pants since 2017 at least.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Repressed in more ways than one, Itto is a woman in need of some kind of liberation.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The element of air is one that allows for freedom, liberation, and a breath of fresh air.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022
  • By the early 1970s, the gay liberation movement was in full bloom in San Francisco.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2023
  • In the first hour of D-day the first spearhead of Allied forces for the liberation of Europe landed by parachute in northern France.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023
  • Their names still resonate throughout the land, and their deeds and discoveries form a distinctive spiritual-intellectual tradition: about the mind and body, desire and liberation.
    Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024
  • Venus in Leo’s desire for attention, pleasure and dramatic expression is essentially coming into conflict with Uranus in Taurus’ demand for disruption, liberation and revolution.
    Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024

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