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facilitate

[fuh-sil-i-tayt] / fəˈsɪl ɪˌteɪt /




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During the closure, Caltrans said traffic control officers will be deployed to 18 key intersections in the area to monitor and manually facilitate traffic flow, and local police will expand commercial traffic enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Gu says that deals financed with expensive stock can be a problem for investors in the company that’s issuing shares to facilitate the transaction, in this case Marvell.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Monaco introduced an offence of presumed money laundering to facilitate the prosecution of cases involving suspicious funds.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The Metropolitan Police has now begun to issue notices to car boot sale organisers, warning they could face criminal liability if they knowingly facilitate or ignore the sale of stolen, counterfeit and illicit goods.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

There was even a train system to facilitate transporting the miners from the Nut to the very center of the main town in District 2.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

"Our findings suggest that conjoint exercise facilitates, in a small but significant way, the ability to resolve conflict peacefully," Yorgason said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Aviation and the tourism it facilitates generated economic activity equivalent to 27% of the emirate’s gross domestic product in 2023, according to a study by Oxford Economics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it facilitates clinical research, but it is still too early to know whether psychedelic treatments might one day become routinely available.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Bessent did not rule out the possibility of Chinese banks being targeted, and vowed that any entity "that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the US dollar system".

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Usually, linguistic change is a crucial marker of a modification in the way in which people think—it both facilitates that change and makes it easier for us to recognize it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

A further £3bn will be made available to Ukraine through loans facilitated by UK Export Finance, a government export credit agency.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Agents wanted Kao to help them find more records that would back up his account and asked him to point them toward lobbyists in D.C. who he said facilitated the pay-for-play scheme.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Still, “the colleagues who facilitated his ouster accuse him of a degree of deception that is untenable for any executive and dangerous for a leader of such a transformative technology.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Kreiz was previously chairman and chief executive of Mattel, where he facilitated the toy company’s big Hollywood push with “Barbie,” “Masters of the Universe” and the upcoming Hot Wheels movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

After introducing himself, he facilitated a conversation that would last about an hour, asking people to share their stories and describe their concerns about life in the neighborhood.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Zach LaVine and Domantas Sabonis, meanwhile, did the heavy lifting for Sacramento, with the shooting guard scoring 28 points and the center facilitating the offense with 14 points, eight assists and 18 rebounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Experts have also pointed to land-clearing practices used to make room for plantations as another factor facilitating the spread of wildfires in Indonesia, with naturally fire-resistant forests replaced by less dense and shaded vegetation.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

"Are they happening together or not? At which molecular site? And how is the water network facilitating the proton hop?"

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Indyke and Kahn have denied knowing Epstein was engaged in sex trafficking or knowingly facilitating any crimes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

It is at this point—and at only this point—that we can say that the work of Galileo and his pupils on water flow had finally paid off by facilitating a markedly improved practical technology.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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