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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
James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
What Comes Next The seed sector is showing the rest of the industry what a more informed, more empowered consumer looks like.
—Sara Payan, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
This is a direct invitation to enhance our duality, and feel empowered by both our softness and darkness.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 2 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
Though some of its '90s quirks may now feel a little passé, the WB fantasy show still stands as a feminist touchstone, breaking away from the 1992 film's damsel-in-distress trope to deliver a complex, empowered hero.
—James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
What Comes Next The seed sector is showing the rest of the industry what a more informed, more empowered consumer looks like.
—Sara Payan, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
Verb
Surrounded by a village of supportive friends and family, Johnson felt empowered to put in the necessary work.
—Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
This is a direct invitation to enhance our duality, and feel empowered by both our softness and darkness.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 2 Mar. 2026
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CBS Miami Team,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
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This content can only be displayed if JavaScript is enabled.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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The default ruling means that Rourke failed to take action to defend against the eviction complaint within the time allowed by law.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Only a fraction of the more than 370 protesters were allowed inside Leavenworth City Hall, where opponents of the facility packed the commission chamber and the lobby overflow room.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2026
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Tutu continued his role of moral leadership after the fall of Apartheid and the election of Mandela as the first president of a liberated South Africa.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2026
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Mapping his passes received shows just how liberated Rogers is when searching for the ball.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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In recent years, the Canadarm2 team has gained so much trust with NASA that many tasks are now authorized to be carried out in ground control facilities at CSA headquarters near Montreal, Quebec.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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The 21-page agreement prohibits the gathering or publication of any information that is not authorized by the government, including declassified information and off-the-record conversations, whether obtained on or off Pentagon grounds.—
Gary Grumbach,
NBC news,
5 Mar. 2026
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The event also commemorated roughly 100 protesters who were killed in February 2014 during Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, a pro-Western uprising to thwart Russian influence on the fledgling democratic nation.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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But Indra Hang Subba, a parliamentary legislator from Sikkim, says such delays are inherent to India's democratic system.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2026
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The milestone brings us closer to Elon Musk’s prediction that training data from 10 billion miles of FSD would help achieve unsupervised driving at scale.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Mar. 2026
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Griffith noted a recent report that children under age 5 were placed unsupervised in hotel rooms.—
Caroline Foreback,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Empowered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowered. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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