empowerment
Example Sentences
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For York and Sacagawea, the expedition offered, briefly, agency and empowerment, only for these to disappear as they returned east.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Viewed in the halo glow of the tradwife’s ascendance, its version of empowerment is severely compromised.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
The black empowerment policies were introduced after white-minority rule ended in 1994, in an attempt to tackle the racial injustices of the past.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
Now the Texas-based artist is taking her musical stylings in a new direction, drawing from her Monterrey roots with the release of her latest “Cuando Una Mujer,” a cumbia norteña about fierce female empowerment.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
West was an outspoken advocate for black empowerment and one of the leaders of the local NAACP.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing empowerment
President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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