embolden
verb (used with object)
has emboldened
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present perfectof embolden (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Arguably it has emboldened them by enhancing their powers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
For Raju, the shooting has emboldened his activism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024
A generational change also has emboldened many young journalists.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Its popularity has emboldened the creators to apply their investigative lens more broadly, including with a planned series that will address a new unsolved mystery each week.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
Even now, when the realistic capering of free verse has emboldened the ordinary man to speak his mind freely, a reviewer hesitates to apply even to bad poetry so undignified a word as trash.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby
