happy release
Britishnoun
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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 Richard Clynton
There was so little hope of ultimate recovery, that it might be considered a happy release; for even had her life been preserved, her faculties could never have been restored.
From Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 3 of 3) by Margracia Loudon
It seems almost incredible that such sufferings as the European captives endured did not long ago bring to them the happy release of death they so ardently longed for; but it was not to be.
From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by F. R. Wingate
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