How to Use disempower in a Sentence

disempower

verb

• They have been disempowered by a society that believes they are intellectually inferior.
• And to heighten that rush, to bring home the sense of power, someone else needs to be disempowered.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 18 June 2019
• And yet having that used against her in the very same instance to shame her and disempower her and threaten her, in a way.
  — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2021
• But again, June finds a way to fire back when the Waterfords disempower her.
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 20 June 2018
• Nothing in their voting record—to disempower unions, and pad the bosses’ fortunes—suggest that will change any time soon.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2021
• They will be used to prop up narratives that disempower black women and women of colour.
  — Kieran Yates, refinery29.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• America worked hard to disempower Haiti and put them in poverty.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• Local news may need more than is offered here, though disempowering the hedge funds and conglomerates that have wreaked so much havoc is a good place to start.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2019
• Now is the perfect time for different voices to enter the room to be able to reimagine a new system that isn’t working with the police but working to disempower them.
  — Ernest Owens, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2022
• We as a company will always swipe right for empowered moves, and left on attempts to disempower us.
  — Kurt Wagner, Recode, 20 Mar. 2018
• As time went on, Dorsey would have eventually joined his fellow founders in the Facebook sphere in feeling disempowered and betrayed.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 6 Mar. 2020
• He was seen as a freedom fighter on behalf of the little people being surveilled, overcharged, and disempowered.
  — Wired, 22 Sep. 2019
• Control in the South has a history of leading to rigging the democratic process — from voting rules to district maps — to disempower Black voters.
  — Nicholas Riccardi, ajc, 15 Mar. 2021
• At the moment, Israel’s right-wing coalition government’s plan to disempower the Supreme Court there is on hold, a mark of grudging deference to what have been the largest peaceful protests in the country’s history.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
• The other is that easterners have been rebelling against a western narrative that has disempowered them.
  — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2019
• Morale at Foggy Bottom has cratered, and with Tillerson disempowered, career bureaucrats are unsure how to do their jobs.
  — Tina Nguyen, vanityfair.com, 29 June 2017
• Fox News is doing no such thing, instead making the case again and again that Trump is—like its hosts and viewers—a victim of a vast conspiracy intended to disempower and emasculate.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• His values are driving Facebook as the company doubles down on policies that empower demagogues and despots and disempower the rest of us.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 Dec. 2019
• Scary movies tend to put their protagonists in a position that very young people are familiar with: disempowered, dependent, in the dark.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Instead, with engineers now disempowered and management far away in Chicago, the actual building of new planes in Seattle all but stalled.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2020
• That means tackling complex questions: How to upgrade homes and buildings while not disempowering people?
  — Karen L. Smith-Janssen, Marie Claire, 4 Oct. 2019
• Empower the projector, and someone disempower the lights.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 14 Feb. 2021
• Now the Indian part of Kashmir has been divided, disempowered, and degraded.
  — Fahad Shah / Srinagar, Time, 7 Aug. 2019
• Who could have expected that a branch of government would willingly disempower themselves?
  — Saul Cornell, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2019
• Russia has long been fabled as the Internet’s most wily mischief-maker, and the nation’s propaganda machine has for years used social and state-backed media to deceive and disempower its enemies.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
• The four lawmakers have pledged to oppose McCarthy's ascension to House speaker largely on ideological grounds and demands to disempower the House speaker's office.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2022
• Taking away learning and serendipity Finally, this new way of accessing information also can disempower people and takes away their chance to learn.
  — Chirag Shah, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
• That explains part of the $100 bill’s global popularity, but throwing the golden baby out with the underworld bathwater would financially disempower millions of people around the world.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2019
• That language embraces the core tenets of a conspiracy theory known as replacement theory, which explains demographic changes as a plot by Western elites, including Jews, to replace and disempower white people.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• Follow your parenting instincts If expert parenting advice is part of a multi-century trend that disempowers parents, does following our instincts work any better?
  — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024