How to Use abet in a Sentence

abet

verb
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  • Did he abet the commission of a crime?
  • She abetted the thief in his getaway.
  • Their actions were shown to abet terrorism.
  • Too often, Assange acts as if there are no such tensions, and Poitras abets him in this.
    — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 3 May 2017
  • The jury convicted Tapp of aiding and abetting the rape and murder.
    — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Support for him may have been abetted by Arizona’s dismal economy.
    — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 23 May 2017
  • The jury has asked the judge to explain the aiding and abetting law a few times and asked to see a video of a co-defendant's statement to police.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, AL.com, 18 May 2017
  • This is both reflected in and abetted by the triumph of the Internet and social media.
    — Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Hive, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Malling’s ability to find a middle way in fashion is actually abetted by digital media.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
  • By 1855, a war was raging between the local residents and the Nisqually, aided and abetted by Stevens.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
  • By 1855, a war was raging between the local residents and the Nisqually, aided and abetted by Stevens.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 9 June 2017
  • But it has been abetted, in the past few years, by a few factors.
    — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Whisky abets the smokiness in the slightly sweet sesame sauce.
    — Naomi Kooker, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • It’s aided and abetted by the drafting of guys like Joe Mixon.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The gods, of course, are abetting the worst impulses of these mortals.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • If the car is registered to you, you can be charged with aiding and abetting.
    — Kathleen Purvis and Myah Ward, charlotteobserver, 29 June 2018
  • Numerous studies have detailed the ways in which climate change may aid and abet the spread of these pathogens as the world warms.
    — Henry Skinner, STAT, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The tenants are also suing the city of Chicago for abetting this process.
    — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Things went a long way on campus, abetted by this movement.
    — Vanessa Grigoriadis, The Hive, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The film has a jaunty tone of deadpan glee, abetted by its soundtrack of ’60s and ’70s jazz standards.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Lenders are wary both of credit risk and of abetting crime if exchanges don’t police users.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Some women paid a high price, landing in prison for abetting his life as a fugitive.
    — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Facebook was in the midst of a crackdown on false or misleading material that could abet the spread of the virus.
    — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
  • But then, the GOP has always known that the birther-king fits said description — and abetted the mogul’s rise to power, anyway.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 22 June 2017
  • This is intended to give the impression, abetted by a press corps that was...
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Yet there’s little sense of risk with her, and when there was, Mr. Welser-Möst certainly wasn’t abetting it.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Salman, the wife of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, is charged with aiding and abetting in the attack.
    — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Results like these, and the reforms that abetted them, are welcome and overdue.
    — Dana Stevens, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The men pleaded guilty in May 2017 to felony-level aiding and abetting in the sale of untaxed tobacco.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2019
  • But as our research found over the last year and a half, people are very resistant to that change and there are forces that are eating and abetting that resistance.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024

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