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“The German musical has emancipated itself from its American role models in a clever, mature and very Berlin way,” the paper’s critic, Hellmut Kotschenreuther, wrote.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Once the slave of arbitrariness, Bjørn has emancipated himself only by a sovereign exaggeration of arbitrariness.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

My mother has emancipated me, and I am quite free to lead my own life.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah

This century has emancipated woman, and like the "Dreamers on the brow of Parnassus," she is not forgetful of the toilers on other altitudes within the horizon's rim.

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

One is Ali the Turk; your mother has emancipated him, and he has now gone home to Thessaly.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór