liberatory
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Seniors are favorite characters of Ms. Williams, avatars of a spirit of liberatory indifference.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
This is what the real danger of both utopian and dystopian visions is: They can have a toxic effect upon our imaginations, by distracting us away from both present-day oppression and liberatory future possibilities.
From Salon • Jul. 29, 2023
I feel like that’s analogous to what you’re saying — if you think about silence as a kind of technology, as a kind of liberatory force or mechanism to exist beyond the parentheses.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2022
What digital culture has done is so extraordinary in so many liberatory and mesmeratory ways — and so many punishing and brutal and shaming ways, for sure.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2022
How moments of liberation, which are often not just a moment, but nonetheless, more finite pushes that are liberatory.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2021
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