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Discover LudwigThe phrase "free itself of" is correct and usable in written English.
You use this phrase to describe a situation in which something is trying to get rid of something else that is limiting or holding it back. For example: "The city is desperately trying to free itself of the oppressive rule of the dictator."
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America would free itself of the encumbrance of formal alliances and multilateral diplomacy.
Pakistan can either decide to be independent, free itself of U.S. aid and reduce its engagement with America.
Like a butterfly struggling to free itself of its chrysalis, her form emerges from enveloping darkness and twists into the light.
Schäuble said: "A lot of outside commentators are saying that the German response to the refugee crisis is driven by Germany's desire to free itself of its history.
J. B. Harley, rather than wanting mapmaking to free itself of the indicia of power relations, merely wanted it to be more in line with his politics.
Barcelona's need is to free itself of the Italian embrace that prevented it from scoring for the first time in 30 Champions League encounters, stretching back to Rubin Kazan in November of 2009.
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Furthermore, the university freed itself of most such constraints by the 1980s.
All was going well until one of the rolling bases somehow freed itself of the brick.
New York, "like the victim of an outrage, goes about freeing itself of its shroud," he wrote.
Argentina freed itself of economic chaos by hitching its future to Washington's broad economic vision of free, competitive global markets.
Abu Dhabi has freed itself of N.Y.U.'s inheritance: the lumbering bureaucracy, the stratified faculty, the overpacked classes, and the students burdened by debt.
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