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  • She showed her father how to enable voice-controlled texting on his phone.
  • He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.  (source)
    enable = make it possible for
  • 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)
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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)
  • 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
  • This was a common practice, enabling copilots to gain experience to qualify as first pilots.  (source)
    enabling = allowing
  • ) I know Mother would profoundly disapprove of the cleavage the dress enables me to have.†  (source)
    enables = makes possible
  • A spineless enabler, like Suzy?†  (source)
    enabler = someone who makes something possible
  • We're classic enablers.†  (source)
  • A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.  (source)
    enabled = made possible for
  • When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident.  (source)
    enable = make it possible for
  • As a young doctor, he supported his younger siblings, enabling them to continue their education.†  (source)
    enabling = making possible
  • It enables him to communicate with a matching transceiver upstairs, with two other anti-air batteries inside the walls of the city, and with the underground garrison command across the river mouth.†  (source)
    enables = makes possible
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