How to Use disempower in a Sentence

disempower

verb
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  • They have been disempowered by a society that believes they are intellectually inferior.
  • And to heighten that rush, to bring home the sense of power, someone else needs to be disempowered.
    — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 18 June 2019
  • And yet having that used against her in the very same instance to shame her and disempower her and threaten her, in a way.
    — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2021
  • But again, June finds a way to fire back when the Waterfords disempower her.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 20 June 2018
  • Nothing in their voting record—to disempower unions, and pad the bosses’ fortunes—suggest that will change any time soon.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2021
  • They will be used to prop up narratives that disempower black women and women of colour.
    — Kieran Yates, refinery29.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • America worked hard to disempower Haiti and put them in poverty.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
  • Local news may need more than is offered here, though disempowering the hedge funds and conglomerates that have wreaked so much havoc is a good place to start.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Now is the perfect time for different voices to enter the room to be able to reimagine a new system that isn’t working with the police but working to disempower them.
    — Ernest Owens, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2022
  • We as a company will always swipe right for empowered moves, and left on attempts to disempower us.
    — Kurt Wagner, Recode, 20 Mar. 2018
  • As time went on, Dorsey would have eventually joined his fellow founders in the Facebook sphere in feeling disempowered and betrayed.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 6 Mar. 2020
  • He was seen as a freedom fighter on behalf of the little people being surveilled, overcharged, and disempowered.
    — Wired, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Control in the South has a history of leading to rigging the democratic process — from voting rules to district maps — to disempower Black voters.
    — Nicholas Riccardi, ajc, 15 Mar. 2021
  • At the moment, Israel’s right-wing coalition government’s plan to disempower the Supreme Court there is on hold, a mark of grudging deference to what have been the largest peaceful protests in the country’s history.
    — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
  • The other is that easterners have been rebelling against a western narrative that has disempowered them.
    — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Morale at Foggy Bottom has cratered, and with Tillerson disempowered, career bureaucrats are unsure how to do their jobs.
    — Tina Nguyen, vanityfair.com, 29 June 2017
  • Fox News is doing no such thing, instead making the case again and again that Trump is—like its hosts and viewers—a victim of a vast conspiracy intended to disempower and emasculate.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • His values are driving Facebook as the company doubles down on policies that empower demagogues and despots and disempower the rest of us.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Scary movies tend to put their protagonists in a position that very young people are familiar with: disempowered, dependent, in the dark.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Instead, with engineers now disempowered and management far away in Chicago, the actual building of new planes in Seattle all but stalled.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2020
  • That means tackling complex questions: How to upgrade homes and buildings while not disempowering people?
    — Karen L. Smith-Janssen, Marie Claire, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Empower the projector, and someone disempower the lights.
    — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Now the Indian part of Kashmir has been divided, disempowered, and degraded.
    — Fahad Shah / Srinagar, Time, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Who could have expected that a branch of government would willingly disempower themselves?
    — Saul Cornell, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Russia has long been fabled as the Internet’s most wily mischief-maker, and the nation’s propaganda machine has for years used social and state-backed media to deceive and disempower its enemies.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The four lawmakers have pledged to oppose McCarthy's ascension to House speaker largely on ideological grounds and demands to disempower the House speaker's office.
    — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Taking away learning and serendipity Finally, this new way of accessing information also can disempower people and takes away their chance to learn.
    — Chirag Shah, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
  • That explains part of the $100 bill’s global popularity, but throwing the golden baby out with the underworld bathwater would financially disempower millions of people around the world.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Power differentials, on the other hand, can occur when one partner uses manipulation or force to disempower the other and gain control of the relationship.
    — Katie Hurley, CNN, 5 June 2022
  • Did Frederick Douglass become disempowered by discussing his suffering as a slave?
    — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 7 May 2018

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