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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
Rabat has also been credited with empowering local women and youth through reading and fighting illiteracy, especially among underserved communities.
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Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
The legal right spent decades empowering the presidency.
—Gregg Nunziata, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Within this discourse, the lines between creators and consumers of information increasingly blur, thus potentially empowering audiences.
—Daniel Jackson, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
Exercise should feel empowering rather than like a chore.
—Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 23 Apr. 2026
On the other hand, empowering hiring managers with clear guidelines and decision-making authority can speed up the process without compromising accountability.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
Right now, Mercury and Neptune are forging an alliance in your motivated 10th house, empowering your public path.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
By modernizing access to materials and instruction, Home Depot invested much of its resources across the past five decades into empowering homeowners to renovate kitchens, build decks, landscape yards and do so much more all by themselves.
—Alexandria Mansfield, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Heather dramatically expanded access to legal education in her years at Yale, empowering students to use the law to change lives for the better.
—Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
The legal right spent decades empowering the presidency.
—Gregg Nunziata, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Within this discourse, the lines between creators and consumers of information increasingly blur, thus potentially empowering audiences.
—Daniel Jackson, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
Exercise should feel empowering rather than like a chore.
—Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 23 Apr. 2026
On the other hand, empowering hiring managers with clear guidelines and decision-making authority can speed up the process without compromising accountability.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
Right now, Mercury and Neptune are forging an alliance in your motivated 10th house, empowering your public path.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
By modernizing access to materials and instruction, Home Depot invested much of its resources across the past five decades into empowering homeowners to renovate kitchens, build decks, landscape yards and do so much more all by themselves.
—Alexandria Mansfield, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Heather dramatically expanded access to legal education in her years at Yale, empowering students to use the law to change lives for the better.
—Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowering
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The science is getting better, enabling more organs to be used from patients who die older, sicker or further from a hospital.—
Karen Weintraub,
USA Today,
3 May 2026
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In the ’90s, the blockbuster sales of two flea-and-tick medications, Frontline and Advantage, demonstrated untapped demand, and then intensified that demand by enabling new levels of indoor intimacy between dogs and people.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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That means cutting taxes, clearing out red tape, and letting California build again.—
Steve Hilton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 May 2026
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The general rule events use is waiting 30 minutes from the last lightning strike in the area before letting fans back into the stands and players on the field/drivers on the course.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 May 2026
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The bill also levels up some program implementation with advances in technology, from using GPS and satellite mapping to promote precision farming to authorizing virtual fence technology in some grazing practices.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
30 Apr. 2026
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Creating a requirement for a certification vote authorizing the establishment of a new union bargaining unit to be valid at least 50% of those workers in the bargaining unit must participate.—
Marta Zherukha,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2026
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Nexstar contends the deal would strengthen TV station economics, allowing stations to bolster their news gathering and expand the number of newscasts.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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Over a dozen people were arrested on suspicion of helping the escapees, including another inmate in the jail and a jail maintenance worker who is accused of shutting off water to the toilet, allowing escapees to remove it.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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