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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

Food and Agriculture Organization called for transformative changes to the formal and informal social systems that disempower women who work on farms and in the food sector around the world.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2023

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

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




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