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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
Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Heidi is the empowered frontier woman, setting off from her parents’ Colorado lodge to reinvent everything about herself out west with a wild man.
—Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2026
The office must be sufficiently funded and empowered to ensure that billions of tax dollars are protected and spent effectively.
—Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
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Adjective
Public goals are a great way to nurture your reputation, especially under this exuberant trine between the Sun in your career zone and Jupiter in your empowered sign.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Heidi is the empowered frontier woman, setting off from her parents’ Colorado lodge to reinvent everything about herself out west with a wild man.
—Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
Verb
And the man who hired him has empowered Ujiri to make his own decision.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2026
The office must be sufficiently funded and empowered to ensure that billions of tax dollars are protected and spent effectively.
—Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
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That enabled investigators to get an official warrant for Hopkins' DNA.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
14 May 2026
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Being too patient in the build-up also allowed City to recover their shape and shut down crossing opportunities.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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People are talking about how we may not be allowed to enter the harbor.—
Akash Kapur,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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Freyre said he's been dreaming of a liberated Cuba since almost immediately after Castro took over.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The movie includes footage of real historical tragedies — harrowing video from liberated concentration camps — along with contemporaneous ones, like the crash of PSA Flight 182, which happened less than two months before Faces of Death was released.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Supreme Court opinion says that the legislation that authorized the new maps would be paused from the day the referendum campaign turned in signatures if the referendum effort is green-lit.—
Jack Harvel,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2026
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Additionally, contractors have removed trees that they were authorized to take down.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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While that’s a tension that has been expected to percolate between the billionaire class and new socialist democratic mayor, real estate sales in the city remain strong.—
Trevor Laurence Jockims,
CNBC,
12 May 2026
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Trump has repeatedly argued that restoring Venezuela’s oil industry is essential to stabilizing the country’s economy and rebuilding democratic institutions after years of authoritarian rule and economic collapse.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2026
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The Chandler Police Department recommended that Brady — the only parent home at the time of his son's drowning — be charged with a class 4 felony of child abuse, citing video evidence that Trigg had been left unsupervised in the backyard for more than nine minutes.—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
8 May 2026
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Without a license, tradeworkers, contractors and other professionals cannot complete unsupervised construction work.—
Maxwell Harden,
Sun Sentinel,
3 May 2026
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“Empowered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowered. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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