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as in enabled
to give official or legal power to
the federal agency empowered to collect taxes
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as in allowed
to make able or possible
workshops in financial management to empower workers to plan for their retirement
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Recent Examples of empowered
David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Your relationship with money is evolving into something more empowered and spiritually aligned.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
Yohuru Williams, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
Advertisement All around me, my fellow Minnesotans are being violently dragged away by masked and armed men empowered by the federal government.
—Bao Phi, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
While Peters veers closer to a stock villain — the ubiquitous empowered dweeb, though those coding-sequence tattoo sleeves are a nice embellishment — Hasan Minhaj and Arturo Castro are appealing as Eve’s ENCOM associates.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Your relationship with money is evolving into something more empowered and spiritually aligned.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
Now that same logic is being extended to agents of the state empowered to detain, deport and kill.
—Yohuru Williams, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
Advertisement All around me, my fellow Minnesotans are being violently dragged away by masked and armed men empowered by the federal government.
—Bao Phi, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowered
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Senior executives speak openly about the potential for better customer experience, better products, and fundamentally new business models enabled by AI.—
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Peay, who was speaking as a member of the California State University Employees Union, said that telework has enabled her family to keep her mother, who suffers from memory issues, at home.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Marrus insisted that Troy Canty should be arrested the instant he was allowed to leave the hospital but also that his bail be set at $1,000—an amount this teen would never be able to pay.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Again, the intention behind his decision to flip the puck deep and go for a change was impeccable, but there was another option there that might have allowed the Canadiens to possess the puck a bit longer.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The film was notable for its liberated portrayal of sexuality, including a famous scene of Bardot dancing, which also expanded the popularity of French cinema around the world.—
IndieWire Staff,
IndieWire,
28 Dec. 2025
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And God Created Woman had a major impact on the liberated screen romances of the next decade, including those made by the French New Wave.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Dec. 2025
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That inmate is Luigi Mangione, according to a person in law enforcement, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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The agency’s decision was not authorized by the Legislature, the suit said.—
Barbara Hoberock,
Oklahoma Voice,
29 Jan. 2026
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This is the time to defend democratic government, the rule of law, and the freedoms generations fought to secure.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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An opening gala was held on Monday, during which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the West’s democratic civilization is under threat from a destructive ideology that has infiltrated every country in Western Europe and the United States.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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But it was quickly revealed that each of the ‘unsupervised’ cars were in fact being tailed by other ‘supervised’ Tesla cars (with drivers present) …so any claims of achieving true unsupervised autonomy are disingenuous at best.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The girl and her biological father began to have unsupervised visits for a few months in 2024.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Empowered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowered. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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