happy release

British

noun

liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition

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As could happen maybe only in a pandemic, the happy release of the bracket will follow a week of tortured brackets.

From Washington Post

View this post on Instagram Happy release day!!

From The Verge

Actress Zoe Saldana is happy release dates for the long-anticipated sequels to 2009 box office smash hit "Avatar" have been announced, joking she does not want to get "too old" to not be able to do her own stunts in the adventure fantasy.

From Reuters

For Dortmund this season, playing in Europe has become a happy release from the tension over relegation that is a strange new experience for extremely good players.

From New York Times

It was pleasant after so many days of suffering to see her at rest; and we feel it must have been a happy release to her too, for her face in death bore no trace of the pain she had endured, of which we were glad, for she looked so natural and sweetly that we could allow her two youngest children to look at "mamma asleep, to wake up an angel in heaven."

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