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empowering

verb

present participle of empower

as in enabling

to give official or legal power to the federal agency empowered to collect taxes

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as in letting

to make able or possible workshops in financial management to empower workers to plan for their retirement

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Recent Examples of empowering Talking about death can be educational, empowering and inspiring. —

Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026 As a Green Ribbon School, Maple Elementary, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2024, stands as a model for creating healthy, sustainable learning environments while empowering students with the knowledge and skills needed to build a more resilient future. —

Magda Liszewska, Oc Register, 8 June 2026 Whether painting one’s pout was deemed empowering or degrading often reflected the feminine expectations of different generations. —

Eileen G'sell, The Conversation, 8 June 2026 Weeks later, on May 5, Mills reacted to her empowering post going viral. —

Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026 Art Partner has unveiled the 2026 Earth Partner Prize – an international competition dedicated to empowering young people to take impactful action in response to the climate emergency. —

Vogue, 6 June 2026 The foundation changes the lives of children with cancer by funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer. —

Cbs News Philadelphia Staff, CBS News, 3 June 2026 Lippard also saw the moment as empowering for artists’ communities; this vision played out in the art and curatorial work of artists like Carlos Villa, Juan Sánchez, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, and the members of the Heresies Collective. —

Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026 Electricity being sent to one core would induct the adjacent wires, the activation of one bit empowering its neighbors. —

Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 1 June 2026

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Su noted that solid-state batteries will play a central role in enabling the next generation of flying cars by delivering both the energy density required for longer flight ranges and the safety standards needed for commercial operations.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 June 2026
But many national security experts say the deal, while not perfect, succeeded in its main goals of halting Iran's march toward proliferation and enabling effective monitoring of Tehran's nuclear activities.

— Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 6 June 2026