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- noun Plural form of
liberator .
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Examples
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In our opinion, these so-called occupiers also deserve the appellation "liberators".
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ed Crego 2011
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However, being greeted as liberators is not the same as being shot at for being occupiers.
CNN Poll: Americans mostly agree with Obama on Afghanistan 2009
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Powell had a hand in writing Air-Land battle which was the doctrine of the US military for fighting war, and the underlying stragety for the actual invasion that we would be greeted as liberators is completely idiotic as any HONEST military Officer would tell you as an assumption for invading another country.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Powell Says U.S. Went Into Iraq Without Enough Troops 2006
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When the four surviving black soldiers reach a small village in Tuscany, the Italian inhabitants — who have never seen black people before — warmly greet their presumed liberators from the German occupiers.
General Lee 2008
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It is known that in the minds of the Latin American liberators there was harbored the idea of sending an army to liberate Cuba.
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Meanwhile, innocent Afghans will continue to die at the hands of their "liberators" -- even as these "liberators" blame the survivors for the attacks on their families.
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The reports of the deaths and assaults done by the so-called liberators to those who had been abused for years by Saddam are confounding and infuriating.
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Invading and occupying armies are called liberators, while those defending their homes are labeled insurgents and terrorists.
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Athenians, who are the authors of all this, should prove to be the cause of slavery to the Hellenes, seeing that ye ever from ancient time also have been known as the liberators of many.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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On the other hand, you don't want to stay so long that you're seen as invaders not as liberators, which is what they went in there trying to be.
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