empowering

verb

present participle of empower
1
as in enabling
to give official or legal power to the federal agency empowered to collect taxes

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2
as in letting
to make able or possible workshops in financial management to empower workers to plan for their retirement

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Recent Examples of empowering With no deals available to get real value back for Randle, Connelly decided to make a move that would prioritize empowering the team’s young core over finding help from outside of the team. — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 23 June 2026 Parents Helping Parents is focused on empowering families of children with emotional, behavioral or mental health needs. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 21 June 2026 Funds from the purchases will support Redress, an organization that is dedicated to empowering sustainable designers. — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 22 June 2026 For leaders, value creation typically centers on stakeholder alignment, driving innovation, and empowering people. — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Kelce has also focused his philanthropy on youth development and community support through his foundation work, backing programs aimed at empowering underserved kids and strengthening local communities. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has declared a 90-day state of emergency, empowering the military to clear road blockades that have cut off La Paz and other cities from fuel and food. — Paola Flores, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026 In my assessment, meaningful reforms focus on empowering registers of deeds to substantively review suspicious documents before recording them; simplifying and expediting quiet title proceedings; and expanding civil remedies so victims can recover the costs associated with clearing their title. — Donovan McCarty, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empowering
  1. enabling
  2. letting
  3. authorizing
  4. allowing
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  • The observatory was named for fast-flying swift birds due to its ability to pivot rapidly to look at cosmic events and afterglows, enabling the study of comets, gravitational waves and black holes over long periods of time.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • The system provides high-performance 3D perception while maintaining low power consumption, enabling robots to detect and interact with complex environments more accurately.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
Definition of enabling
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  • Authorities stopped letting people into the National Museum of African American History and Culture, with more than 1,000 sheltering outside the building and some exposed to the elements.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • And even though the Fourth is tomorrow, plenty of early deals are already letting the discount freedom ring.
    — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 4 July 2026
Definition of letting
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  • However, because agentic systems can execute actions independently, an error can become a severe operational failure, such as authorizing fraudulent transactions or deleting mission-critical databases.
    — Barney Krishnan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Rather than authorizing private helipads citywide, the amendment would apply only to the industrial zoning district on Terminal Island, where Griffin’s marina is under construction.
    — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Definition of authorizing
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  • McDonald faced seven batters in the third, recording just one out and allowing six singles.
    — Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
  • But in people with narcolepsy, such boundaries become blurred, allowing elements of sleep to intrude into wakefulness in varying ways.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Definition of allowing

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