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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
While the primary goal is empowering those with mobility impairments, the implications of a powerless eye-tracker are many.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
Today is shaped by the Sun and Venus connecting in your sign, empowering your sense of self with warm confidence.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Talking about death can be educational, empowering and inspiring.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Instead, parents can embrace all kinds of empowering sentiments that are unique to each child and circumstance.
—Hannah Silverman, Parents, 5 Jan. 2026
Critics may argue that empowering local decision-making requires vast new resources.
—Deborah L. Birx, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
With this empowering Full Moon gleaming across your 2nd and 8th houses, the galactic focus is definitely on resources — especially ones shared with others.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
In 2010, Donaldson founded her nonprofit LiveLung, an organization dedicated to empowering lung cancer patients, survivors and their caregivers through education and community.
—Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
Longoria was honored with the Maestro Cares Community Hero Award for educating and empowering Latin women through Eva Longoria Foundation (ELF), and Balvin received the Trailblazer of Cultural Empowerment Award for his commitment to raising awareness about mental health.
—Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2025
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
Today is shaped by the Sun and Venus connecting in your sign, empowering your sense of self with warm confidence.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Talking about death can be educational, empowering and inspiring.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Instead, parents can embrace all kinds of empowering sentiments that are unique to each child and circumstance.
—Hannah Silverman, Parents, 5 Jan. 2026
Critics may argue that empowering local decision-making requires vast new resources.
—Deborah L. Birx, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
With this empowering Full Moon gleaming across your 2nd and 8th houses, the galactic focus is definitely on resources — especially ones shared with others.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
In 2010, Donaldson founded her nonprofit LiveLung, an organization dedicated to empowering lung cancer patients, survivors and their caregivers through education and community.
—Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
Longoria was honored with the Maestro Cares Community Hero Award for educating and empowering Latin women through Eva Longoria Foundation (ELF), and Balvin received the Trailblazer of Cultural Empowerment Award for his commitment to raising awareness about mental health.
—Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowering
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The system comes preloaded with a vision–language–action (VLA) large model and more than 10,000 real-world data samples, enabling it to perform complex tasks without extensive setup or calibration.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Each one grew up in a home that required her to curry favor with volatile and inconstant parents—a menacing father figure, a recessive and enabling mother—and each found a fragile safety in her caretakers’ occasional good will.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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His version of vulnerability, letting the audience get to know him.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Cuban argues if similar transparency and direct‑to‑consumer models were applied across health care—combined with rules like letting cash prices count toward insurance deductibles—the country could strip out layers of waste that burden both families and, ultimately, public budgets.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
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According to multiple sources inside and outside Venezuela, Cabello has effectively halted the prisoner release process by blocking the execution of court orders authorizing their freedom — a move that underscores the depth of the internal rupture.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
10 Jan. 2026
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The letter details other claims of favoritism and disregard for recent board directives to curb spending, like attempting to hire for vacant positions and authorizing overtime expenditures despite the hiring and overtime freeze enacted in the board approved fiscal solvency plan.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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These platforms display prices and coverages side by side, allowing drivers to spot differences that may not be clear at first glance.—
Ethan M. Stone,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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That simple change would introduce real competition, allowing merchants to choose lower-cost options and forcing the dominant players to compete on price and service--just like any other market.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Empowering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowering. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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