- present participle of empower.
empowering
Example Sentences
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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
It’s so empowering to go back to this world that I crafted and this character that means so much to me and my fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Wood reshuffled his management team, making Howard Stoeckel, who’d later succeed him as CEO, vice president of marketing, and empowering him to shake up the inside of Wawa’s stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But Globalization 3.0 differs from the previous eras not only in how it is shrinking and flattening the world and in how it is empowering individuals.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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