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
The term has been popularized by an influential faction within the AI field who are concerned that trying to build machines as smart as humans might disempower or destroy humanity.
—Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Beginning in the Obama administration, however, Chevron fell out of favor with the legal right, and the Federalist Society’s annual lawyers’ convention became a showcase of proposals seeking to disempower the administrative state.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 28 June 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
The term has been popularized by an influential faction within the AI field who are concerned that trying to build machines as smart as humans might disempower or destroy humanity.
—Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Beginning in the Obama administration, however, Chevron fell out of favor with the legal right, and the Federalist Society’s annual lawyers’ convention became a showcase of proposals seeking to disempower the administrative state.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 28 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disempower
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The order has sparked backlash among critics who argue large numbers of voters will be disenfranchised.—
Lauren Irwin,
The Hill,
24 Apr. 2025
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One of the conference’s speakers, Raphael Greenberg, has criticized Israel’s archaeological work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, claiming that these projects are designed to disenfranchise the Palestinian people who reside there.—
Alex Greenberger for ARTNews,
Robb Report,
7 Apr. 2025
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That shift could instantly disqualify every employee at those institutions from PSLF.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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These legal entities allow families to set aside money for a child with disabilities without disqualifying them from public benefits.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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In the case of an outage that disables mobile networks, Uplink routers—often backed by batteries or operating on local mesh—can keep neighborhoods connected.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Users can also disable remote administration and reboot their routers to cut off this primary access point.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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“Disempower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disempower. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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