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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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 June 2024
Politically, an empowered COP could raise public and political awareness of pandemic threats.
—Alexandra Phelan, STAT, 27 May 2024
There also needs to be much greater territorial contiguity for Palestinians in the West Bank, and Israel must support reforming the Palestinian Authority, to help build the authority of a new empowered prime minister.
—Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
What if that story was merely one of many – and one that conceals a more complex and empowered story that West Africa claimed for itself?
—Thomas Page, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
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The women are so empowered, and there are shades of lesbianism as well.
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That label was reserved for liberated prisoners of war.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
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Yet de Saint Sernin, who launched his label in 2017 and took the reins of Ann Demeulemeester for one season last year, designs from a provocative perch and his liberated ideas of gender and sexuality result in clothes that are sometimes minimalist, sometimes glam, often body-bearing.Amy Verner, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2024
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As the democratic party puts its best foot forward with the Democratic National Convention starting Monday, economic strategists have already begun analyzing party platforms.Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 19 Aug. 2024
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Since those changes the region has remained on edge, governed by a New Delhi appointed administrator and run by bureaucrats with no democratic credentials.Aijaz Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024
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Butler was allowed supervised visitation with her children every Saturday and was likely to be granted unsupervised visitation during an upcoming hearing, per court documents.Stepheny Price, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2024
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My company believes our AI technology can achieve safe AD (unsupervised mode) for over 99% of driving time by mid-2027.Igal Raichelgauz, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Empowered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empowered. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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