Example Sentences

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Under normal circumstances, the rules would have empowered the referee to declare a forfeit and award the game to Morocco.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

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

People have published financial advice for generations, but vertical video apps have empowered financially illiterate creators to push their ideas directly to other financially illiterate users.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 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)