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adjective

Definition of empowerednext
as in enfranchised

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verb

past tense of empower
1
as in enabled
to give official or legal power to the federal agency empowered to collect taxes

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2
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
Adjective
There’s little precedent for our federal government to prosecute crimes of the empowered elite. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026 Greater impact feeds your empowered mindset, and the cycle continues. — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
Verb
The clearest proof of this choice is what happens when girls are empowered. — Susan Gouijnstook, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026 My leadership is much more about providing a very clear direction and making sure that there’s a high degree of autonomy for people to feel empowered and enabled to do so. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for empowered
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowered
  1. liberated
  2. enabled
  3. allowed
  4. democratic
  5. authorized
  6. unsupervised
Adjective
  • The slide-out kitchen stores away under the bed so as not to take up any of the liberated floor space.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The liberated bundle then touches down somewhere else in the genome, where native DNA repair processes paste it in.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
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  • The company is working on a Siri AI-enabled smart home hub that comes with a six-inch display that users can mount to their wall or place on a table, Bloomberg has reported.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Consider Inside Membership a slick, Uber-like alternative to traditional PR agencies, streamlining the process of bookings, content creation and measurement of ROI, since it’s all enabled by proprietary technology.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of enabled
Verb
  • Unlike demonstrations based only on predefined motions, this open interaction allowed visitors to observe the robot’s dynamic stability and control performance under external disturbances, according to a press release.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Fragmentation has allowed many powerful figures to get their message across by circumventing traditional media outlets whose questions many CEOs and politicians don’t want to answer.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of allowed
Adjective
  • My kids can’t vote yet, but the consequences of democratic decisions already affect nearly every part of their lives.
    — Jeanette Senecal, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • European institutions have warned of democratic backsliding in Serbia in successive reports tracking the progress of candidate countries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of democratic
Verb
  • That's according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly and cautioned the plans could shift.
    — NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • As synthetic media and autonomous systems proliferate, organizations will need to verify identity, prove content provenance and determine whether AI agents are authorized to act.
    — Amit Sinha, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of authorized
Adjective
  • Electrolyte disturbances during unsupervised fasts can destabilize the heart and trigger arrhythmias.
    — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Ada County Magistrate Judge Laurie Fortier sentenced Chavez to six months of unsupervised probation, and he is required to complete an anger management course within three months of sentencing.
    — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2026
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