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
Alongside selectively prioritizing people in your life, equally important is steering clear of people who consistently disempower, disrespect, or discredit you.
—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
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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
Alongside selectively prioritizing people in your life, equally important is steering clear of people who consistently disempower, disrespect, or discredit you.
—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
See All Example Sentences for disempower
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disempower
Verb
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The mid-decade plan to redistrict aims to disenfranchise Hoosier voters, Carson said.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Last week, the Florida Supreme Court twisted a historic provision of the U.S. Constitution, meant to protect minority voters, as a means to disenfranchise them.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 July 2025
Verb
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Turner was disqualified and given a black card for her refusal to face the trans opponent, prompting mass backlash against USA Fencing.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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But the other half of the $100,000 co-features ended in controversy when apparent California Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Stakes winner My Love Caroline was disqualified for an incident leaving the starting gate and dropped to fourth.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
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Some of these technologies are essential for ensuring the proper functioning of the service or website and cannot be disabled, while others are optional but serve to enhance the user experience in various ways.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
15 Aug. 2025
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This tab logs all your previous chats and has options to disable or delete them.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Disempower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disempower. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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