empower
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“Our mission has always been to inform, engage and empower our audience,” MS NOW President Rebecca Kutler said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I like how Estuardo is trying to empower us,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bylaws empower the chair to set the board’s agenda and pick a vice chair, though the board—which is largely appointed by the mayor—can expand those powers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
She now works to empower other women after setting up the charity Women's Health Hope.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
His goal was to empower the wave of migrants rolling into town to become productive citizens of their adopted city.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Pusateri added that the company, which is currently reviewing Apple's complaint, is "focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
“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
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Once that safety is established, Park is able to help his students feel empowered by their story, Mejia said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Grande reassured fans that the decision came from a "thoughtful, empowered place", and had been planned "a long time ago".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
After all, the very nature of how Green Lanterns obtain their superhuman abilities involves cosmically empowered rings choosing their wearers.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
But they also found practical accommodations that could make clinical care feel safer and more empowered.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
His education has empowered him, and he has strong opinions about racial freedom and equality that land him and the black community in trouble.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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An empowering message isn’t one that recommends the opposite of long-standing guidance.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
In my fifth decade, I’d found a web-learning technique that was workable and empowering.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
"Instead of silencing residents and handing mayors a blank cheque, the government should be empowering local councils with the resources to deliver genuinely affordable homes alongside the infrastructure to support them," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
On the whole, this looks to be a positive inflection point in our political leadership, empowering a new generation of leaders advocating needed changes in the government’s relationship with its constituents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
In this sense, mathematics is just the opposite of constraining; it is empowering, and at the service of anyone who cares to use it.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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