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Taiwan has been boosting defence spending for years and acquiring smaller and more nimble weaponry, including drones, to enable its military to wage asymmetric warfare against China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
According to interviews and internal emails reviewed by ProPublica, career staffers at the Justice Department warned that transferring voter rolls to HSI to enable it to search for noncitizen voters could violate federal privacy laws.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Bath confirmed they will play their final two home games of the Prem season away from the Recreation Ground to enable construction work to begin as part of a redevelopment.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Schools that enable such behavior are one incident away from a lawsuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The bitter feelings occasioned by this speech, the many bitter feelings, made the utmost exertion necessary on Emma’s side, to enable her to say on reply,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
“This emergency declaration enables the City to act swiftly in reducing wildfire risks while continuing our balanced approach that protects both public safety and vulnerable community members.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Universities operate a system called clearing, which enables students who have not been able to get into their first choice to find another university place or course.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
He shared his strategy for investing in the AI build-out, which enables him to avoid guessing ”who wins and who loses on the software side.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
"This nonequilibrium fabrication approach enables us to fabricate materials from alloy vapor to a solid, introducing a significant number of dislocations in CoAl," Zhang said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Treating differences as a threat enables one society to dehumanize the other.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“This decision will result in carriers that are enabled by battle-tested steam and hydraulic systems that are more resilient and robust than the present, more exquisite, follow-on systems,” the White House said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
This additional income enabled me to delay claiming my own Social Security benefits until 70.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
They formed an essential part of the survival strategies that enabled people to live in some of the harshest environments on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Amazon added it remained committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 under The Climate Pledge, and had enabled 40 carbon-free energy projects totaling nearly 10 gigawatts in Texas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The title of this book will serve as shorthand for those proximate factors, which also enabled modern Europeans to conquer peoples of other continents.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
He said his firefighters have "very specialist skills" to tackle wildfires with military assistance enabling him to "focus all of that in the right place".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Their conversation explores characters who hide their true nature behind carefully constructed personas, the role of technology in enabling obsession and revenge, and the social rituals that define contemporary London.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
“AI is reshaping the economy by providing automation that transcends traditional time and capacity constraints, enabling businesses to operate seamlessly around the clock,” Konstantine Buhler, a partner at Sequoia Capital, told me last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Zuckerberg said in an Instagram video Monday that his company would open the weights for its latest AI model, enabling it to be downloaded by the public.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
During those years when the nuns warned me about the dangers of intellectual pride and referred to Christ as Baby Jesus, they were enabling me to participate frilly in the liturgical life of the Church.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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