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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disempowering
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The Navy deployed carbon-fiber warheads on Tomahawk missiles in the opening hours of the 1991 Gulf War, disabling roughly 85% of Iraq’s electricity supply.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
6 Apr. 2026 -
The kind that the Iranians have had no problem so far either disabling or deterring with firepower from drones.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
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On a campy and subversive new album featuring Bladee, the Ukrainian black metal artist aspires to make the notoriously forbidding genre a little warmer.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
31 Mar. 2026
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Generally speaking, courts have ruled against people who violate a religious-neutral law while practicing their religion, including a notable 1990 case that found a man’s religious peyote use could still be penalized under an Oregon law forbidding it.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Disempowering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disempowering. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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