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disempower

[dis-em-pou-er] / ˌdɪs ɛmˈpaʊ ər /
VERB
take power or influence away from
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Last month, 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. 13, 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

Pamela Lopez, a lobbyist who accused a lawmaker of sexual assault in 2017, said a defamation lawsuit used as a retaliation tactic goes beyond trying to disempower survivors.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023

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

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2022

So these little nuggets of problematic facticity—the inability of garlic to disempower a magnet or of goat’s blood to re-empower it—found their way into della Porta’s text.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton