Example Sentences

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The last five years have been liberating as well as fruitful — allowing Molesworth to cement her reputation as an independent thinker, interlocutor and public intellectual.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023

He said the place is quiet and, like Childers, said small things have been liberating.

From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2020

It would have been liberating to be a ghost, to feel like I could drift through walls or float up into the night sky.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2017

But his silence may also have been liberating to Kolhatkar, who was not psychologically constrained by gratitude to her subject for letting her in.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2017

At the time these might have been liberating, but they can easily become ossifying, arthritic.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2014