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[en-ey-buhl] / ɛnˈeɪ bəl /


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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

Fixed-wing Russian drones, such as Molniyas, can ferry smaller FPV drones farther and enable them to attack targets inaccessible to them before.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

An expansion proposal by the airport's owners would enable it to accommodate 150m passengers per year.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Maybe he’d divined in me—correctly—this cowardice, this hideous pack instinct which would enable me to fall into step without question.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

It enables him to travel the globe, visiting Fifa's official offices like Rabat, where he was based over the past week as the Fifa Forward Enterprise controversy developed.

From BBC Aug. 7, 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

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

The card allows noncitizens the opportunity to work in the United States, and it also enables them to acquire a Social Security number.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Shares in Vestas Wind Systems VWS 18.19%increase; green up pointing triangle jumped after the Danish wind-turbine maker posted higher second-quarter earnings and improving profitability, which enabled the company to increase its full-year margin guidance.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

This additional income enabled me to delay claiming my own Social Security benefits until 70.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 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

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

All three Marvellian cities have been on high alert for unusual activity and have enabled extra security precautions until she has been caught.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

According to Ms. Hazrat, Aristophanes’ dots were “the first nonalphabetical marks devoted to unlocking sentence structure and therefore enabling the performance of text.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Silicon Valley enriched itself with promises that the cyber revolution would mean more freedom and democracy by enabling the flow of information and communication.

From Salon Aug. 14, 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

Although the version seemed unlikely to them, they did not have any information enabling them to replace it with the true one.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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