Timeline for Adjective that means ‘having agency’
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| Oct 11, 2022 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1579668285339348992 | ||
| Oct 10, 2022 at 1:40 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @smci Surely “having agency” has also “become devalued to meaninglessness by psychobabble, management-speak and a thousand Dilberts”, no? She was one of twenty enslaved women given to the conquistadors to use as servants and sexual objects. Cortés seems to have eventually freed her, replacing her with a new slave. That she may have been allowed to make certain decisions on her own does not mean that as a once-enslaved native woman she ever enjoyed the freedoms of a white man then and there in that awful medieval world. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 1:19 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2022 at 0:07 | answer | added | John Smith | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 9, 2022 at 23:50 | comment | added | John Smith | @smci Not entirely true. My daughter's second-grade class had a speaker brought in to empower them, and the effects were clear. My daughter got the power to stop time. Her best friend can fly now. | |
| Oct 9, 2022 at 23:41 | vote | accept | Beanluc | ||
| Oct 9, 2022 at 14:00 | answer | added | user465495 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 9, 2022 at 12:17 | answer | added | rackandboneman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 9, 2022 at 4:34 | answer | added | Blessed Geek | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 8:42 | answer | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 18:30 | comment | added | smci | "independent" is the answer; "autonomous" is generally not used for individual humans, but for sociopolitical groups, or machines. "empowered" is some late 20th-C US buzzword that has become devalued to meaninglessness by psychobabble, management-speak and a thousand Dilberts. | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 14:22 | comment | added | Stuart F | What is wrong with "autonomous" or "independent"? | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 9:56 | answer | added | DW256 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 7:40 | answer | added | Davislor | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 0:26 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 6, 2022 at 20:46 | comment | added | Lambie | Americans say empowerment and empowered. I think your blank would be a simple: powerful. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 19:57 | answer | added | Emily Chapman | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 17:44 | comment | added | Beanluc | @FumbleFingers Sure, it wouldn't be exactly wrong but it wouldn't emphasize what I want to emphasize or feel/sound the way I want to write, those are the reasons. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 17:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 6, 2022 at 17:19 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 17:12 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | You've already written something that conveys autonomy on her part. I can't see any reason why you don't want to use autonomous. All the other characteristics you mention (independence, initiative, freedom from the influence of the soldiers) are implicit in autonomous. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 16:57 | answer | added | Edwin Ashworth | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 16:27 | comment | added | Jim | How about empowered? | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 16:21 | history | asked | Beanluc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |