empower
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She said she was "really happy" and wanted to "empower women" and "leave an imprint on their lives" with her future career.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Second, Congress should explicitly empower federal courts to set aside any action a commission takes while inquorate.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Congress, he said, should empower an independent prosecutor to investigate such conflicts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Some legislators worry recognizing the threatened scrub jay could empower environmentalists to protect more habitat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
My promise to myself was to survive so that I could escape Little Rock and empower myself with enough education to come back home and change everything.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
She added: "The new uniform empowers girls and volunteers to embrace their individuality."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
"We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere," an OpenAI spokesperson said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
“We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Today, art historians like to say that Les Demoiselles empowers viewers, which is what they say about the Mona Lisa too—they mean that both paintings are open to interpretation.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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After all, the very nature of how Green Lanterns obtain their superhuman abilities involves cosmically empowered rings choosing their wearers.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Grande reassured fans that the decision came from a "thoughtful, empowered place", and had been planned "a long time ago".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
But they also found practical accommodations that could make clinical care feel safer and more empowered.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
When people are empowered, they naturally check and balance each other and the power of larger institutions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
He gave Bloom a cable from the Exposition Company that empowered De Young to hire someone to select the concessions for the Midway Plaisance and guide their construction and promotion.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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It’s so empowering to go back to this world that I crafted and this character that means so much to me and my fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
"It was an empowering decision that gave me more agency," the 37-year-old said, adding that the process was challenging.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
While she likely intended the lyric to be empowering, instead it feels more like a metaphor for her apparent physical fragility.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
But why, when lightness is such an empowering virtue, would anyone tempt fate in motorized dreadnoughts like the GT S?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
But Globalization 3.0 differs from the previous eras not only in how it is shrinking and flattening the world and in how it is empowering individuals.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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