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The Louisiana civil code already allows parents to rescind contracts signed by unemancipated minors.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

The hopes and dreams of most Soviet women in fact sound startlingly unemancipated to the Western ear.

From Time Magazine Archive

The unemancipated workers construct steep, rocky dams that jut out into the free, unbridled sea.

From Maxim Gorki by Ostwald, Hans

No, no; I do not hear, I do not see, although I am conscious of, my Tsar, whose unemancipated serf I am.

From Bye-Ways by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Feudalism in unemancipated countries, and oligarchy in the communes, made nearly the same ravages.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)