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“We have emancipated youth who, the banks will still give them a hard time about opening a bank account,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2023

The Protestants had as yet no distinctively national feeling, and a legislative Union would have emancipated their industry and added enormously to their security.

From Historical and Political Essays by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Oh, very good," he said; "but what nonsense to have emancipated a self-willed girl.

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

Where will be the four million slaves whom by your policy you have emancipated?

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John

She protests that I have emancipated her from slavery.

From Some Private Views by Payn, James