Empowered with skills in final (7)

I believe the answer is:

enabled

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'empowered' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'skills in final' is the wordplay.
'skills' becomes 'able' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'final' becomes 'end' (synonyms).
'able' put within 'end' is 'ENABLED'.

'with' is the link.

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(Other definitions for enabled that I've seen before include "Made something possible" , "Be laden (anag.)" , "Qualified" , "Made possible, facilitated" , "Permitted" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.

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