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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
Today hosts a gentle Moon-Chiron trine, empowering your friendly 11th house and your verbose 3rd house.
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Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
The organization also will focus on social priorities such as better working conditions for farm workers and empowering women.
—Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 9 Mar. 2026
By empowering her girls to tap into their innate curiosity, Harris is also encouraging them to trust themselves.
—Maressa Brown, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
Hyper focused on delivering timely news, insightful analysis and revealing data, Sourcing Journal is empowering industry leaders to make informed business decisions.
—Footwear News, 7 Mar. 2026
Venus is swanning into your intense 8th house, empowering you to speak about topics that require extra diplomacy, like inheritances or other financial situations that involve multiple people.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2026
Vast's Haven stations are engineered to deliver safe, cost-effective access to microgravity research and in-space manufacturing, empowering government and commercial partners to unlock the full commercial promise of this next era for space.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Talking about death can be educational, empowering and inspiring.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
April 20 – May 20 The stars are empowering teamwork and trust.
—Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2026
Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
The organization also will focus on social priorities such as better working conditions for farm workers and empowering women.
—Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 9 Mar. 2026
By empowering her girls to tap into their innate curiosity, Harris is also encouraging them to trust themselves.
—Maressa Brown, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
Hyper focused on delivering timely news, insightful analysis and revealing data, Sourcing Journal is empowering industry leaders to make informed business decisions.
—Footwear News, 7 Mar. 2026
Venus is swanning into your intense 8th house, empowering you to speak about topics that require extra diplomacy, like inheritances or other financial situations that involve multiple people.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2026
Vast's Haven stations are engineered to deliver safe, cost-effective access to microgravity research and in-space manufacturing, empowering government and commercial partners to unlock the full commercial promise of this next era for space.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2026
Talking about death can be educational, empowering and inspiring.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
April 20 – May 20 The stars are empowering teamwork and trust.
—Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowering
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By enabling machines to create and verify their own records at the point of operation, the technology offers a new method for ensuring the reliability and accountability of autonomous systems.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
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Historically, the mismatch was addressed through education, which improved with each generation, enabling workers to work with new innovation.—
Allison Schrager,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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That twist makes Frank both sympathetic and conniving, and Bale does a good job letting both aspects of his complex performance come through.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
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Johnson recommends installing an owl box or letting a section of your yard grow naturally as a meadow to attract these helpful predators.—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
7 Mar. 2026
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The board approved a resolution authorizing the contract as part of the consent agenda during a meeting on Tuesday.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
8 Mar. 2026
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Newsom tried to ease the transition, and in doing so was criticized by environmentalists, for signing legislation authorizing some 2,000 new well permits in Kern County through 2036.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Mar. 2026
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But his brain-imaging studies suggest that, during a psychedelic trip, communication between different regions of the brain becomes far less constrained than during normal consciousness, allowing new ways of thinking to emerge.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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The program focuses on opening its hardware interfaces to third-party tool and component manufacturers, allowing different tools to be easily connected and used within a plug-and-play industrial ecosystem.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Empowering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowering. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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