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empower

[em-pau-er] / ɛmˈpaʊ ər /


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“Our mission is to empower people to live healthier, longer, and an IPO is just one step in our journey,” Oura Chief Executive Tom Hale said Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

He announced the launch of “Smithsonian Cares,” a digital resource that would “provide tools and guidance to empower and inspire conversations about diversity, equity, access and inclusion.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth says the government wants to "empower communities"

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

"It must ensure that proportionate age restrictions go hand-in-hand with robust safety measures so that digital environments both protect and empower children, by design and default," they wrote.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

If I wanted to empower people, to make them feel included and seen, this definitely wasn’t the right way.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

The department said the government was also "cracking down on nuisance passengers" with the Bus Services Act, passed in October, which empowers local authorities to create by-laws to prevent nuisance passengers.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

"We have no interest in other companies' trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere," an OpenAI spokesperson said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

“Her vision for it was: this institute only succeeds if it empowers our department to do things that we want to do, but might not otherwise have the resources to do,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

“What’s important about this acquisition is that it empowers Cursor to develop its own internal models further,” Dayaratna said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026

Today, art historians like to say that Les Demoiselles empowers viewers, which is what they say about the Mona Lisa too—they mean that both paintings are open to interpretation.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

“My goal is to help create community colleges where every student feels supported, included, and empowered to succeed,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

And a Black athlete empowered to stand for Black people is an athlete who should expect to be persecuted, like Curt Flood, whom Kaepernick mentioned.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026

This phenomenon has empowered families to demand steeper discounts and generate bidding wars between schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

"But I do think the UK will feel empowered to at least ask for the same restrictions."

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Agents were now empowered to make arrests and carry firearms, and the department was soon renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

"I'm showing and empowering other women to do it," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

“We strongly believe that fear-based narratives are not the way to make the right decisions about the future of such a foundational and empowering technology or bring the public along with us,” said Delangue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

For people tinkering around the edges, with the goal of feeling stronger and more energetic, the glut of recommendations in here could feel empowering, perhaps like a sturdy reference text.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

“And I think it’s very empowering, and I’m so happy to see my work on the wall at the Getty.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

It was empowering to help dismantle the definitions of beauty that too often erased women of color and almost never included hijabi women.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad




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