empowerment
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“We were fighting not only for sewer, potholes and police protection but for self-determination and empowerment of our community,” Martinez de Vara wrote in a firsthand account of the incorporation campaign.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
Fans connect, often viscerally, to Wolf's lyrics, which sit at the messy intersection of love, obsession, self-doubt and empowerment.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
And at “Karolchella,” the first all-women mariachi ensemble in the United States demonstrated what female empowerment can look like, despite performing in a historically male-dominated music genre.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
More broadly, businesses are reclaiming the upper hand in the employer-employee relationship after a period of worker empowerment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Authors like the incredible journalist Peter Maass and famed Latino poet Jimmy Santiago Baca inspired the students to continue to use writing as a form of empowerment rather than violence.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
Vocabulary lists containing empowerment
President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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Where Wolves Don't Die
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