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"text": "1983, David Leslie Wagner, The Seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages:",
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"ref": "1997, Gordon D. Morgan, Toward an American Sociology: Questioning the European Construct, page 45",
"text": "Americans remain enamored with Europe's ability to produce the consequential thought for America. It was the same in nearly every liberal field. Education sought its roots in such Europeans as Froebel, Frobenius, and Rousseau. Political science tried to connect to Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and Otto von Bismarck, for instance. Economics copied the thought of Adam Smith, […]",
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"text": "2008, Donal G. Mulcahy, The Educated Person: Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education, →ISBN:",
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"text": "He was liberal with his compliments.",
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"ref": "1899, J. M. Baltimore, “Pacific Coast Light Service”, in Overland Monthly, volume 33",
"text": "Indeed, the Government has been very liberal in the expenditure of public money",
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"ref": "2005, John Gardner, Assessment and Learning, page 50",
"text": "When he shows improvement she is liberal with her praise and then moves on to the next set of skills to be learnt.",
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"ref": "2007, Helena Page Schrader, The English Templar, page 309",
"text": "Queen Isabella was already being called Santa Isabella by many of her subjects because she was liberal with her alms.",
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"ref": "2010, Simon Guillebaud, More Than Conquerors: A Call to Radical Discipleship, page 142",
"text": "Was it because the believers were so liberal with their possessions that God was so liberal with his grace?",
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"ref": "2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18",
"text": "Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.",
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"text": "Add a liberal sprinkling of salt.",
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"ref": "1896, Ice and refrigeration, volume 11, page 93",
"text": "For this reason a liberal amount of piping should be used. If a liberal supply of piping is provided at first, the first cost will of course be greater, but the extra expenditure is called for but once.",
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"ref": "2009, R. Furman Kenney, Chesterville: The Village at the End of the Road, page 102",
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"ref": "2011, Marlene Perez, Dead Is Not an Option, page 37",
"text": "Rose put a steaming cup of mint tea in front of me and spooned a liberal helping of honey into it.",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty",
"word": "liberaali"
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"sense": "one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty",
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"sense": "one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty",
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"sense": "one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty",
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"roman": "jayujuuija",
"sense": "one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty",
"word": "자유주의자"
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"sense": "one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty",
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"sense": "one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty",
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"sense": "one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty",
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"sense": "supporter of a liberal party — see also progressive",
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"sense": "supporter of a liberal party — see also progressive",
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"sense": "supporter of a liberal party — see also progressive",
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "supporter of a liberal party — see also progressive",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "supporter of a liberal party — see also progressive",
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"sense": "Britain: one who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights and laissez-faire markets",
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"sense": "Britain: one who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights and laissez-faire markets",
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