Example Sentences

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"We reject the zero-sum notion that one people’s freedom requires the unfreedom of other people. Our liberation as Jews is inextricably bound up with the liberation of Palestinians."

From Salon • May 2, 2024

As the authors write, to claim that any reforms are “a step toward unfreedom is like claiming that road signs, stop lights and speed limits are steps toward the elimination of driving.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

They employed images of imprisonment, enslavement, and caged animals to drive home the point that freedom from want was, in effect, a form of unfreedom.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2021

It was a classic Cold War conundrum: the price for artistic freedom was a little zone of unfreedom.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 3, 2018

The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in Oceania, Neo-Bolshevism in Eurasia, Death-worship, as it is commonly called, in Eastasia, had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and in-equality.

From "1984" by George Orwell