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“When kids are emancipating, they want to leave everything to do with their youth behind,” she said.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2022

"My little girl," said the Count of Plouernel haughtily, "you are emancipating yourself prodigiously."

From The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Sue, Eug?ne

We are emancipating ourselves, among other badges of the slavery of feudalism, from the inconvenient dress of the European female.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various