as in to disenfranchise
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Recent Examples of disempower
Alongside selectively prioritizing people in your life, equally important is steering clear of people who consistently disempower, disrespect, or discredit you.
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Joseph Liu, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.
—Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
Alongside selectively prioritizing people in your life, equally important is steering clear of people who consistently disempower, disrespect, or discredit you.
—Joseph Liu, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.
—Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
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Joseph Liu, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.
—Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
Alongside selectively prioritizing people in your life, equally important is steering clear of people who consistently disempower, disrespect, or discredit you.
—Joseph Liu, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.
—Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for disempower
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disempower
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Forbes is protected by reCAPTCHA, and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Enter the new administration, swept in by an angry and frustrated populace and with a mandate to fix all that had disenfranchised them.—
David Rosowsky,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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Those moves are part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to upend the Civil Rights Division's traditions of pursuing cases to protect the civil rights of some of the country's most vulnerable and historically disenfranchised populations.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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Sam Horsfield was disqualified from the Final Qualifier for The Open Championship played on Tuesday at West Lancashire Golf Club.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
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While employers can lawfully disqualify a candidate based on a positive test, doing so without a transparent and defensible policy may raise questions in competitive hiring markets or among stakeholders focused on fairness.—
Alonzo Martinez,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Pornhub disabled its website in Texas last year because of the state law.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 June 2025
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As revealed in a recent episode of 60 Minutes, in one case the agency sent a clawback letter to a 32-year-old man, living on Social Security and disabled by cerebral palsy.—
John C. Goodman,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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“Disempower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disempower. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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