disempowering

verb

present participle of disempower
as in disabling

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  1. disabling
  2. forbidding
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  • In June, the current presidential administration imposed export controls on Anthropic, which led to the company disabling its advanced Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models.
    — Eric Reicin, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Iran is the prime suspect in the cyberattacks, which can blind utility operators by changing passwords or disabling alarms, according to the sources, though its involvement has not been officially confirmed.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
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  • The castle moniker invokes brooding keeps, defensive towers and forbidding stone.
    — Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Some of them led to places that were forbidding, almost aggressively inscrutable, while others were easy enough to read but left an eight-year-old feeling that some funny business was going on behind her back.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Definition of forbidding
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