Sample Sentences for
empower
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  • The commission was empowered to redraw voting districts.
    empowered = given power or authority
  • The Panthers educated and empowered the people.  (source)
    empowered = gave knowledge or confidence that helps others to take more control of their lives
  • Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness — and promised answers — he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"  (source)
    empowered = given authority or power
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  • I am not empowered to trade your life for a lie.  (source)
    empowered = given the authority or power
  • You've already done something pretty empowering.†  (source)
  • Who knew that something as simple as a bridge could empower women?  (source)
    empower = give authority, power, knowledge, or confidence to someone so they can do something
  • You all need to work on your positive empowerment and self-actualization.†  (source)
  • Is there an objection because the new Constitution empowers the Senate with the concurrence of the President to make treaties that are to be the laws of the land?  (source)
    empowers = gives authority or power to
  • Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling, Jordan.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disempowering reverses the meaning of empowering. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • May this vial of water be empowered with thy spirit.  (source)
    empowered = given power
  • Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving.†  (source)
  • If you would empower me to do it, I would do it for you with the greatest satisfaction!  (source)
    empower = give authority to
  • In that one sentence, she gave me such a feeling of empowerment.†  (source)
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