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disempower

[dis-em-pou-er] / ˌdɪs ɛmˈpaʊ ər /
VERB
take power or influence away from
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In January, he published a paper that found that advanced AI tools can disempower users and distort their sense of reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Opposition parties highlighted cost of living issues, high unemployment - especially for young people - and fears that constitutional changes could disempower the disadvantaged.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024

Survivors who supported the legislation have said a defamation lawsuit is often used as a retaliation tactic to disempower victims.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2023

More importantly, however, they disempower us as democratic citizens.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2022

And he remarks that with this equipment you will find it easy to establish that garlic and diamonds do not disempower magnets; you can do the experiment whenever you like.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton