release

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UK /rɪˈliːs/US /rɪˈliːs/

Meaning

noun
the act of setting a person or an animal free; the state of being set free
release of somebody/something, The government has been working to secure the release of the hostages.
verb
to let somebody come out of a place where they have been kept or stuck and unable to leave or move
release somebody, to release a prisoner

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of their project a game that had seriously fallen behind schedule instead of creating a game we repaired a game and it eventually was released as NES pinball that experience taught us

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because in putting it in the atmosphere it releases energy.

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We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.

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