How to Use enabler in a Sentence

enabler

noun
Definition of enablernext
  • Senseless to keep steroid guys out when the enablers are in Hall of Fame.
    — Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The days of impunity for Tehran and its enablers are over.
    — Gregg Re, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • In the real world, the bots aren’t our overlords so much as the enablers of our boredom.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • There are a lot of people who think that the enablers got off scot-free, and Disney is a part of that.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Harris has been the enabler in chief for Crooked Joe this entire time.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024
  • The Office of Science is a major enabler of science in the U.S.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The GOP is a mess, and Trump’s agenda and that of his close allies and enablers is a threat to democracy.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • That etiquette is named as the enabler in cases such as this — and a lot worse ones — is unjust.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
  • If putting junk in the trunk is important to you, the two-row-crossover segment is a great enabler.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Banks have been the biggest enablers of the growth of the system’s dark underbelly.
    — Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Even worse is the fact that his many enablers in the Catholic hierarchy have still not been held to account.
    — Marc A. Thiessen, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The torrent of lies Trump and his enablers have sent rushing over the DNC server story threaten to wear the truth to a nub.
    — Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
  • There was a whole circuit of enablers around him, adults who permitted this to go on.
    — Amy Julia Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • At the core of it, finance needs to be an enabler of actionable insights for the business.
    — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Rooting the enablers out of that program would be more helpful.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • But the Fed has willingly become the chief enabler of that failure.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The balance constitutes red meat for the public and its enabler, the news media.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 22 June 2020
  • Its title describes him and the gang of enablers, cronies, and hangers-on who were looting Italy around that time.
    — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Expect to hear howls from inside the White House gates, and from the enablers infesting the cable green rooms as well.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 Dec. 2017
  • And to be clear, the list of enablers includes all media on hand at The Omni Hotel downtown.
    — Joe Rexrode, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The world must apply pressure on the Houthis and their Iranian enablers.
    — Ahmed Awad Binmubarak, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • Trump and his apologists and enablers should take note, because this does not bode well for them.
    — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Angry women are not to be trusted, which suits abusers and their enablers just fine.
    — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Bygone heretic hunters and their enablers have become the hunted.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
  • When the inevitable scandal erupts to bite the leagues and their political enablers, they will be stuck.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • For the fixers, enablers, and vassals who surround Donald Trump, the rewards of his friendship are not worth the risks.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2024
  • Kids who had nothing to do with Nassar or his enablers or the questions their coach is getting asked.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Growing and leading a brand new business comes with agility, which is a huge enabler for change.
    — Kees Kruythoff, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • This positions Akamai as a key enabler of AI technologies, further supporting its bullish outlook.
    — Tony Zhang, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Though the form-filling functions of the app didn't function well in testing, its capabilities as an authenticator, password manager, and passwordless login enabler were impressive.
    — PCMAG, 22 Oct. 2024

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