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happy release

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noun

  1. liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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As could happen maybe only in a pandemic, the happy release of the bracket will follow a week of tortured brackets.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2021

In fact, for factory-farmed animals, death must be a happy release from a life of sheer misery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Poor soul," they say, "it is a happy release.

From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard

The ice was broken; we soon became fast friends, and our friendship remained unbroken until their happy release some years after.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin

On Mr. Pickwick’s happy release and when every one was rejoining, Wardle invited the whole party to a family dinner at the Osborne. 

From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

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