disempowering

verb

present participle of disempower
as in disabling

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  1. disabling
  2. forbidding
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  • Every improvement in surveillance capability encourages new methods of avoidance, whether through disabling tracking devices, manipulating vessel identities, or exploiting gaps between different monitoring systems.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2026
  • Not content to wait for local officials to strike down ALPR contracts, concerned citizens are taking matters into their own hands by disabling or cutting down Flock camera towers wherever they’re found.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 16 July 2026
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  • Concurrently, China implemented strict regulations on AI companion chatbots, forbidding emotional reliance and virtual relationships with minors, citing demographic concerns.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 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
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