as in enfranchised
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as in enabled
to give official or legal power to
the federal agency empowered to collect taxes
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as in allowed
to make able or possible
workshops in financial management to empower workers to plan for their retirement
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Recent Examples of empowered
Oliver Darcy, CNN, 17 July 2024
The women are so empowered, and there are shades of lesbianism as well.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
That's – that is my concern, is that there's a culture of silence and that individual officers and agents are not empowered to say something is wrong.
—CBS News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
If anything, the staff at 30 Rock might feel more empowered to speak out against network brass after the events of the last few months.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 17 July 2024
The women are so empowered, and there are shades of lesbianism as well.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
Verb
Instead, Brad Stevens invested in him and empowered him.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
That's – that is my concern, is that there's a culture of silence and that individual officers and agents are not empowered to say something is wrong.
—CBS News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowered
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This method enabled competitors to keep their overhead costs low, retaining minimal staff and reducing the risk of product spoilage en route.Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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Two more partial skulls, one in New Zealand and one in Chile, later enabled scientists to confirm a brand-new species.Lex Harvey, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
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At that time, members of the royal family were not allowed to marry divorced people.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
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The Silicon Valley investor has called for major reform at the FDA in the past and argued that the efficacy of drugs should be measured after they have been allowed on market.Sara Dorn, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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The images of liberated Syrians are as moving as the images of Germans after the Berlin Wall came down.Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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More mass and individual graves, torture chambers and other evidence of atrocities were uncovered in the liberated territories in Kharkiv region.Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Nov. 2024
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Highlight the method used to confirm each script is authorized.Rui Ribeiro, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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The official wasn’t authorized to disclose information about the investigation and spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.Michael R. Sisak and Mark Scolforo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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The Rio Grande Valley in the southernmost tip of Texas was a consistent Democratic stronghold.Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
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Her long record as a foreign policy dissident under both Democratic and Republican presidents will give Senate hawks plenty to scrutinize — and, perhaps, to excoriate.Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
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Generally, unaccompanied minors can't leave the lounge unsupervised, but adults in the lounges can take children outside to buy food and drinks.Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
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Tesla’s autopilot system, which is not yet capable of unsupervised self driving, eschews Lidar and relies on sensors and a suite of eight cameras that provide a 360-degree view around the vehicle.Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Empowered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowered. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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