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America may have empowered the president to give the capital a case of Mar-a-Lago face, but the city’s inhabitants get only the slightest of say in federal matters.

From Slate May 18, 2026

The new rules also have empowered some of the sport’s longtime pushover programs to gleefully kick sand in the faces of their former bullies.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 24, 2025

Tighter rules have empowered Cal/OSHA to act more quickly when workers were at risk, the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2024

Late last year, they moved in together; with Luka, Wang and Damian’s son, the members of this unorthodox trio have empowered one another past the shadow of grief.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2024

That can do no one any harm; and as we have spoken up, as we have empowered him to offer handsome terms to Messieurs les Morts——’ It was intolerable.

From A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)