How to Use empowered in a Sentence

empowered

adjective
  • This is a vision of deeper, richer, more empowered lives.
    — Fei-Fei Li, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The album became a huge part of her live show and helped the superstar embody her new empowered self.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2026
  • The empowered consumer seeks this creation.
    — Amish Shah, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • And yet, despite the pain of going through a divorce, many women emerge on the other side stronger, happier and more empowered.
    — Oona Metz, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Greater impact feeds your empowered mindset, and the cycle continues.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 27 May 2026
  • An empowered landscape creates empowered people, and the reverse is also true.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There’s little precedent for our federal government to prosecute crimes of the empowered elite.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026
  • What Comes Next The seed sector is showing the rest of the industry what a more informed, more empowered consumer looks like.
    — Sara Payan, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
  • In that scenario, your role would be to create an environment where people feel heard, empowered and psychologically safe.
    — Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 8 May 2026
  • Heidi is the empowered frontier woman, setting off from her parents’ Colorado lodge to reinvent everything about herself out west with a wild man.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Customers who feel empowered and secure are more likely to recommend a service to others, stay through market volatility, and continue to adopt new products.
    — Dhruv Arora, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Learn physical techniques that teach you to escape or survive violent attacks and learn psychological awareness and verbal skills to feel empowered and safe.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Many are reinventing themselves as AI-empowered consultants, not just delivering solutions but teaching clients to build their own.
    — Sahar Hashmi, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Your relationship with money is evolving into something more empowered and spiritually aligned.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Saturn in Aries activates your relationship with money, values, and self-worth, beginning a new phase of building stability from a more empowered place.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Public goals are a great way to nurture your reputation, especially under this exuberant trine between the Sun in your career zone and Jupiter in your empowered sign.
    — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Just as colonial expansion had fostered the first men on the spot, so decolonization created a new generation of such empowered historical actors.
    — Alfred McCoy, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Entry-level workers aren’t exempt, but the paradox deepens at the executive level, highlighting how even the most empowered employees remain uneasy.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Associates outside of the company also described him as an empowered and empowering executive.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Technology must act quickly by building solutions to promote digital literacy, mindful use and curiosity—fostering empowered youth who will strengthen both country and humanity.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Though some of its '90s quirks may now feel a little passé, the WB fantasy show still stands as a feminist touchstone, breaking away from the 1992 film's damsel-in-distress trope to deliver a complex, empowered hero.
    — James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
  • With its proprietary clienteling software, B1ock is able to funnel shopfloor feedback, e-commerce data, and post-sales services into an AI-empowered system that shapes a detailed customer profile, which supports one-on-one clienteling efforts.
    — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • By focussing on female characters, Jude invites sympathy for individuals who are structurally less empowered than their male peers, just as Romania occupies a position of weakness in relation to its European neighbors.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The empowered non-complier is, in other words, usually a millennial — the generation that preceded Gen Z into the workforce, accumulated the credentials, built the professional networks, and then, during the pandemic, quietly moved an hour outside the city.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • While Peters veers closer to a stock villain — the ubiquitous empowered dweeb, though those coding-sequence tattoo sleeves are a nice embellishment — Hasan Minhaj and Arturo Castro are appealing as Eve’s ENCOM associates.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025

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