intellectual freedom
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: freedom that allows people to think about or study what they want
the library's commitment to intellectual freedom
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The bottom line: Despite challenges, activists, authors, and communities are steadfast in protecting intellectual freedom, ensuring diverse stories are not erased.
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Delano Massey, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
This celebration is a somber occasion, for intellectual freedom is under siege on multiple fronts, presenting higher education with challenges that are likely to test foundational values as never before.
—Jamie Kalven, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
In Aquarius, the messenger planet encourages you to think outside the box, seek intellectual freedom and embrace unconventionality.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Another challenge is this national growing trend of book challenges, and this challenge to the concept and value of intellectual freedom.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
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Delano Massey, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
This celebration is a somber occasion, for intellectual freedom is under siege on multiple fronts, presenting higher education with challenges that are likely to test foundational values as never before.
—Jamie Kalven, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
In Aquarius, the messenger planet encourages you to think outside the box, seek intellectual freedom and embrace unconventionality.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Another challenge is this national growing trend of book challenges, and this challenge to the concept and value of intellectual freedom.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for intellectual freedom
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“Intellectual freedom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intellectual%20freedom. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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