- present participle of empower.
empowering
Example Sentences
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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
“I’ve traveled from the coast of North Carolina to the coast of Washington down to Arizona! It’s the most empowering thing ever!”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
By putting the bank’s own money to work on national security, he is doubling down on earlier attempts to catalyze societal changes, from fighting global warming to empowering Black citizens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
He said this would include taking power away from devolved parliaments and empowering communities.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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
