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
Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Thanks to modern technology, parents can feel more empowered and free to do more with their kids in tow.
—Ramona Saviss, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
To many outsiders, strip clubs have long been seen as spaces for degenerates, aimless men, and wayward women—glittering voids that swallow lost souls rather than hubs for the empowered and entrepreneurial.
—Alexandra Jane, Essence, 10 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Embracing failure is pivotal for success in an empowered culture.
—Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Thanks to modern technology, parents can feel more empowered and free to do more with their kids in tow.
—Ramona Saviss, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
That so many people have empowered us to steer the revolution.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
To many outsiders, strip clubs have long been seen as spaces for degenerates, aimless men, and wayward women—glittering voids that swallow lost souls rather than hubs for the empowered and entrepreneurial.
—Alexandra Jane, Essence, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowered
Verb
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That launch enabled Alanui to reach different clusters of customers, as the label’s target is currently aged 20 to over 60 years old.—
Sandra Salibian,
WWD,
21 Mar. 2025
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Earnhardt enabled Berry to drive the team’s late model in between drivers years back.—
Joseph Wolkin,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Blue Jackets have allowed a goal on the first shot of the game in two straight games and three times in their last six outings.—
Aaron Portzline,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Since 2016, a small trickle of visitors—no more than four per day—has been allowed to tag along, and a chunk of their $500-a-head permit fee helps keep the research center running.—
Chris Schalkx,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In fact, many members of the crew have been involved in repairing the homes of their protagonists; and an all-filmmakers volunteer team has even opened a charitable foundation that raises outside money and brings in materials to rebuild liberated villages.—
Lauren Wissot,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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The effect, which spoke to a different part of my brain than is usually accessed in the theater, communicated something profound about gender politics — and not in intellectual abstractions but in the liberated movement of defiant bodies and souls.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
Verb
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The Yorkville Police Department Investigations Division, along with the Kendall County Cooperative Police Assistance Team, were authorized on Thursday to record communications with Hellenthal, according to the release.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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The school board has authorized sending a request for proposals to search firms that will help select a new superintendent, according to Donahue’s message.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Onstage, Erica Payne, the group’s founder, a former Democratic strategist with a Wharton M.B.A., put up a slide of survey results suggesting that the movement might find supporters among both Democrats and Republicans.—
Evan Osnos,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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Fear of a similar democratic collapse motivated Americans like Bass after World War II.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
Adjective
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He was given six months of unsupervised probation and no prison time.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
24 May 2025
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Does my child have a mental, physical or medical disability? How many children are being left unsupervised?—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 May 2025
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“Empowered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowered. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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