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enabling

[en-ey-bling] / ɛnˈeɪ blɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
allowing to happen
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Cost management and Porsche’s value-over-volume strategy are starting to have positive effects, enabling the company to reaffirm its full-year forecast, according to its chief financial officer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Fire and rescue chief Marc Vermeulen said conditions were more severe than during the devastating fires that hit the region in 2022, with drought enabling the blaze to continue spreading through the night.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Continued high oil and gas prices offered a boost to earnings while enabling the company to cut its net debt by $3.3 billion, bringing it down to just shy of $20 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

She recommended that he take a long way to reenter the park, enabling him to see the valley at a time he’d miss the crowds.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

By enabling farmers to generate food surpluses, food production permitted farming societies to support full-time craft specialists who did not grow their own food and who developed technologies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond



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