disempower
verb
dis·em·pow·er
ˌdis-im-ˈpau̇(-ə)r 
disempowered; disempowering; disempowers
: to deprive of power, authority, or influence : make weak, ineffectual, or unimportant
Examples of disempower in a Sentence
They have been disempowered by a society that believes they are intellectually inferior.
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Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers.
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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
Aren’t red-lining, Jim Crow laws, discriminatory farming subsidies, the practical exclusion of Black veterans from GI benefits, gerrymandering to disempower Black voters, not to mention legalized slavery, etc., part of the true complete history of our great nation?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2024
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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
Aren’t red-lining, Jim Crow laws, discriminatory farming subsidies, the practical exclusion of Black veterans from GI benefits, gerrymandering to disempower Black voters, not to mention legalized slavery, etc., part of the true complete history of our great nation?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2024
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“Disempower.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disempower. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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disempower
verb
dis·em·pow·er
dis-im-ˈpau̇(-ə)r
: to keep one from having authority, power, or influence : make weak or unimportant
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