as in to disenfranchise
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Recent Examples of disempower
Alongside selectively prioritizing people in your life, equally important is steering clear of people who consistently disempower, disrespect, or discredit you.
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Joseph Liu, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.
—Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
The term has been popularized by an influential faction within the AI field who are concerned that trying to build machines as smart as humans might disempower or destroy humanity.
—Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Beginning in the Obama administration, however, Chevron fell out of favor with the legal right, and the Federalist Society’s annual lawyers’ convention became a showcase of proposals seeking to disempower the administrative state.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 28 June 2024
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Joseph Liu, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.
—Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
The term has been popularized by an influential faction within the AI field who are concerned that trying to build machines as smart as humans might disempower or destroy humanity.
—Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
Beginning in the Obama administration, however, Chevron fell out of favor with the legal right, and the Federalist Society’s annual lawyers’ convention became a showcase of proposals seeking to disempower the administrative state.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 28 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disempower
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The new map disenfranchises 19% of Black adults and 12% of Latino adults in Tarrant County, while disenfranchising 5% of white adults, the lawsuit alleges.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2025
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Voting rights advocates had said the state law could disenfranchise many voters of color.—
Deborah Barfield Berry,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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Applicants experiencing homelessness or unstable housing may not be disqualified due to lack of a permanent address.—
Alonzo Martinez,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Transgender athletes are not disqualified from participating.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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Her short centered on two estranged sisters, one of whom is cognitively disabled, who must learn to communicate after their mother’s death.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
5 June 2025
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Officers disabled the vehicle after a high-speed chase through Mountain Home and on I-84, the release said.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
4 June 2025
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“Disempower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disempower. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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