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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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as in enfranchised
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Recent Examples of empowered
John Hopewell, Variety, 29 July 2025
If supported by voters, this new structure would combine the accountability and expertise of the council-manager system with an empowered mayor.
—Nate Miley, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Today they are empowered to do their jobs – and the result is the lowest apprehensions in more than five decades, and the most secure border in modern history.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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The changes in Pao’s body are a vital and empowered metaphor for this process, which is so often portrayed merely as decline.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 29 July 2025
If supported by voters, this new structure would combine the accountability and expertise of the council-manager system with an empowered mayor.
—Nate Miley, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
Adjective
Importantly, Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s Bystander Intervention and Good Samaritan policies are designed to ensure that members feel empowered and protected when calling for medical assistance.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Today they are empowered to do their jobs – and the result is the lowest apprehensions in more than five decades, and the most secure border in modern history.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowered
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Many of them had easy access to government offices that enabled them to obtain genuine Syrian passports with fake names, according to former employees and regime figures.—
Danny Makki,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Apple has postponed plans to make a lighter and less expensive version of Vision Pro, originally targeted for 2027 release, in favor of focusing on AI-enabled smart glasses to compete with Meta, according to a Bloomberg report earlier this month, citing an internal announcement.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
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The six pressures allowed were the most in Puni’s career.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
14 Oct. 2025
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But again, still, against the league’s best offense, the Chiefs allowed just 17 points, more than enough when paired with an offense that’s finally humming.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
13 Oct. 2025
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In July, Congress authorized over US$12 billion in funding to help modernize the air traffic control system.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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Equity members, like 802, have authorized union leaders to strike if necessary.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
13 Oct. 2025
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The stars say that Anderson’s ambitious, liberated ideas should carry through to womenswear.—
Maya AlZaben,
Vogue,
30 Sep. 2025
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Micro minis and short shorts dominated the runways, from Prada to Versace, underscoring a liberated, high-summer spirit.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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This past year, Pepper-Jackson qualified for the West Virginia girls high school state track meet, finishing third in the discus throw and eighth in the shot put in the Class AAA division.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Jays face long odds against the Mariners, the only one of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams to have never qualified for the World Series.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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Only men were invited to Muttaqi’s first news conference on Friday, which was described by many Indian reporters, press groups and opposition politicians as an affront to India’s democratic principles and press freedom.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concerns about democratic erosion have been unusually pointed.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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The sight of unsupervised children playing or walking or riding a bike gradually became conspicuous and, too often, triggered the involvement of police or child-welfare authorities.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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Such unsupervised conversational shape-shifting would make this rogue Humbert particularly charismatic.—
Vauhini Vara,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Empowered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowered. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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