disempower

Example Sentences

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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

The Fifth and Sixth amendments were designed, in part, to disempower judges—who are, after all, employees of the state—and hand over the final determination of guilt to a dozen citizens drawn from the community.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2024

“It’s as important to disempower ourselves as it is to empower them.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2023

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