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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
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
Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
If empowered to retain the data that shows who is engaging with them as a song, an event or a community, artists could unify what is now fragmented across multiple sources.
—Geoff Robins, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
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
Verb
The new conventional wisdom in Washington is that trade and investment with China enriched and empowered the Communist Party of China at the expense of American workers.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
If empowered to retain the data that shows who is engaging with them as a song, an event or a community, artists could unify what is now fragmented across multiple sources.
—Geoff Robins, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowered
Verb
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What changed modern warfare was not necessarily the most advanced weapon per se, but rather that the Sherman enabled large-scale mechanized operations, thanks to its ease of production, repair, logistics support, and global deployment across multiple theaters.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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This operational discipline enabled the company to pursue projects with tight timelines or unusual spatial constraints, assignments that often commanded premium pricing due to their complexity and precision requirements.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The company count included insiders like Musk, who held around a 15% stake in Tesla going into the proxy and was allowed to vote his shares.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
11 Nov. 2025
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After the couple handed Clarkson a paper with their vows and requested her to read it, the three-time Grammy Award winner joked that she wasn’t officially allowed to officiate.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Millions remain far from liberated from economic pressure, and few of us feel burdened by an excess of free time.—
Arianna Huffington,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
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Translation: this is cosmic support for becoming a more expansive, liberated version of you — one who knows their worth and isn’t afraid to explore new horizons.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
12 Oct. 2025
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Roseman has authorized nine trades since the beginning of training camp, the most in his 16-year tenure.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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Trump has authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to carry out covert operations in the country and has left the door firmly open to unspecified land operations.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Before Hasina’s ouster, the United States didn’t do much to check the course of democratic backsliding in Bangladesh.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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At the time, some human rights experts voiced concerns that his presidency risked backsliding on the democratic gains made since Suharto’s authoritarian regime.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Butler had been allowed supervised visitation every Saturday and, according to court records, was expected to gain unsupervised visitation rights in the coming weeks.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The One Thing That Hasn’t Changed Risk-taking in adolescence has historically taken many forms—from substance use to unsupervised social activities.—
Hannah Silverman,
Parents,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Empowered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowered. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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