enable
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A key part of this year's Han Kuang exercise is decentralising command and control to enable commanders and officers on the battlefield to make operational decisions without waiting for orders.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
I spoke with Mr. Reynolds about how to enable a fiduciary wrapper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The four former commissioners have signed a joint letter arguing that the gondola proposal “would enable a private development to permanently and irreparably shrink, degrade, and destroy the integrity of a state park.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
At one point, he accused his former father-in-law, the senator, of continuing “to fund and enable his daughter’s malicious campaign to ruin my life despite his knowledge of her mental health issues.”
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
Finally, she “content-filtered” the slices, which means she removed the high-frequency sounds from speech that enable us to recognize individual words.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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It’s the kind of derisive mutual beatdown that sinks relationships — or that can be the necessary overboard discharge that enables them to stay afloat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
"Generative AI enables disinformation to be created at unprecedented scale, tailored to specific audiences, and disseminated with remarkable speed," an EU official said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Hotter, drier conditions are leaving vegetation with less moisture, creating fuel that enables wildfires to ignite and spread more quickly.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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
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Since last February, UK iPhone users have been met with a notice on the Advanced Data Protection settings page which says the tool cannot be enabled.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
There are still debates about the origins of the virus, but the idea that Fauci created or enabled it in some way is ridiculous.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
While Altman visited St. Barts in the Caribbean during the December holiday break, coders in San Francisco spent hours on “Claude-benders,” marveling at capabilities enabled by a new Anthropic model called Opus 4.5.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
This process enabled the researchers to introduce many more dislocations into the CoAl than conventional casting normally permits.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Intensive postwar lobbying by truck manufacturers and armies finally convinced the public of its own needs and enabled trucks to begin to supplant horse-drawn wagons in industrialized countries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The Met has so far questioned six people suspected of enabling Fayed's offences, although it has not made any arrests yet.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
The same biological machinery that helps tumors grow rapidly may therefore make their DNA increasingly unstable, potentially enabling cancers to change, adapt, and become more aggressive.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
His comments, made during a cabinet meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat, were in contrast to his insistence earlier this week that “very friendly negotiations” were under way, enabling a pause on military operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The aircraft hit the sand and rolled for about 100 feet before Mike made a hard turn, forcing the aircraft to brake and enabling the pair to emerge unscathed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Then, according to the handed-down story, McLane managed to somehow deliver the codebook to Admiral de Grasse, enabling him to foresee British maneuvers and win the sea battle.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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