Example Sentences

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These actions undermined the slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and, in some cases, hastened the enactment of emancipatory laws.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

Whereas each track on “The BPM” is more emancipatory than the one that precedes it; home means something new, a deliberate renovation of received ideas of how to make a house a home.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025

The current starburst of storytelling shines a different light on the region, he said: It is emancipatory, proposing freedom from recycled stories and foreign heroes.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2023

One might add that an emancipatory politics means that freedom cannot be either individualized or removed from the quest for economic and social justice.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2022

They are inclined to think that this way is more direct than the participation in the Russian emancipatory movement.

From The Shield by Yarmolinsky, Avrahm