Sample Sentences for
enable
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    She showed her father how to enable voice-controlled texting on his phone.
    enable = activate
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    He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.  (source)
    enable = make it possible for
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    When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident.  (source)
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    The tunnel enabled him to get from the barn to his hiding place under the pig trough without coming out into the open.  (source)
    enabled = allowed (made it possible for)
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    Walt has spent the past ten days in Fairbanks, doing contract work for NASA, developing an airborne radar system for search-and-rescue missions that will enable searchers to find the wreckage of a downed plane amid thousands of acres of densely forested country.  (source)
    enable = make it possible for
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    This was a common practice, enabling copilots to gain experience to qualify as first pilots.  (source)
    enabling = allowing
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    The result lacks depth and contrast but enables the sniper to see at night.†  (source)
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    I became what they call an enabler until I finally realized that the only person who could help your mother was herself.†  (source)
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    We're classic enablers.†  (source)
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    A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.  (source)
    enabled = made possible for
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    I'd believed the money would be used to control me, but what it did was enable me to keep my word to myself: for the first time, when I said I would never again work for my father, I believed it.  (source)
    enable = make it possible for
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    Sweeping changes to international law were being quickly enacted, enabling law enforcement to chase down cybercriminals wherever they were.†  (source)
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    Over millions of years, the bird has developed an anatomy that enables it to fly.†  (source)
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