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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
The album became a huge part of her live show and helped the superstar embody her new empowered self. — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2026 By focussing on female characters, Jude invites sympathy for individuals who are structurally less empowered than their male peers, just as Romania occupies a position of weakness in relation to its European neighbors. — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Verb
Granger said she was not empowered to oversee any of the team’s compliance or operational matters. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 July 2026 That's because Title VII requires employers to keep records that could be pertinent to any discrimination investigation, and the EEOC is empowered to request them. — ABC News, 21 July 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
  • And there were already many claims being made for the nearly $4 billion worth of liberated slaves.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • Hungary’s new minister of culture, Zoltán Tarr, shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • Though present, they are not enabled by default and require overriding hidden FeatureFlags, which increases user risk.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • But a wild pitch enabled Alvarez to reach first base, and Paredes socked the first pitch of 388 feet to left for a three-run home run and a 5-1 lead.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
Definition of enabled
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  • In what was a relatively uncharacteristic ending for this Spain team – perhaps seeing the finish line so close – the squad allowed Argentina a few last chances, two of which couldn’t have been closer in the final eight minutes or so of the match.
    — Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • This spring, residents were allowed to return to the ruins of the complex, Wang Fuk Court.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of allowed
Adjective
  • Our state’s ballot access laws are an anti-democratic embarrassment.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026
  • Like our democratic republic itself, these efforts are decentralized — local, pragmatic, and responsive to what communities actually need.
    — Brendan Bechtel, Fortune, 25 July 2026
Definition of democratic
Verb
  • This is the part the Pentagon has now authorized for $17 billion in launch procurement expenses.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026
  • According to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the incident publicly, the ship was hijacked by seven armed Somali pirates.
    — Omar Faruk, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of authorized
Adjective
  • The family alleges that the children were left unsupervised at the daycare center while the staff attended the director’s birthday celebration, according to Oliveira.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026
  • The impending open-source release of China's Kimi K3 AI by July 27, designed for unsupervised operation, presents a grave global security threat.
    — Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
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