as in mandate
the granting of power to perform various acts or duties
the empowerment of her husband to make medical decisions on her behalf is clearly stated in her living will
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Recent Examples of empowerment
Kika explores a particular collision of collapse and reinvention, observing how financial precarity and pressure can erode personal boundaries and generate unexpected forms of empowerment.
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Catherine Bray, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Aside from women’s empowerment, what other initiatives stand out this year?
—Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
The Black spiritual traditions that Hollywood demonizes played a crucial role in our empowerment.
—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
The empowerment of independent labor movements, too, must take priority.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
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Catherine Bray, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Aside from women’s empowerment, what other initiatives stand out this year?
—Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
The Black spiritual traditions that Hollywood demonizes played a crucial role in our empowerment.
—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
The empowerment of independent labor movements, too, must take priority.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowerment
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The Fed's policymakers are weighing their dual mandates of keeping prices stable and maximizing employment after months of weaker-than-expected jobs reports.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Except that the European Parliament decided that this mandate was a no-go.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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But the mandates also help colleges shovel heaps of bureaucratic muck—validating data for accreditation, carrying out enrollment, flagging troubled students, aggregating metrics of all kinds.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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The festival has stoked debate with its rejection of accreditation requests from Israel’s DocAviv Festival, CoPro – The Israeli Content Marketing Foundation and state broadcaster Kan for its upcoming edition, running from November 13 to 23, in a move first reported by Variety on Monday.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Empowerment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowerment. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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