enable
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For example, items ordered online and picked up in store parking lots are counted as e-commerce sales, he said, so increasingly stores are a digital-fulfillment node that enable speedy delivery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
This latest funding will enable the charity to support around 8,500 children over the next 12 months.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The “action” of a gene is described in mechanistic terms: genes encode chemical messages to build proteins that ultimately enable form and function.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Straddling different segments of the gas sector often enables companies to reduce costs and capture a larger share of profits realized at different stages of the fuel supply chain, the analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
This distinctive signal enables scientists to identify antineutrinos coming from the reactors.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
“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
Art enables us to communicate our understanding in ways that cannot be expressed otherwise.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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“By combining Apple silicon, on-device processing, privacy, operating systems, personal context, and a vast installed base, Ternus could cement Apple’s device dominance in an AI enabled era,” Mohan wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The technology has enabled recruiters to cast a wider net at the start of a search, O’Donnell says, resulting in a more competitive process for everyone contacted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The incident triggered the three-page letter signed by Senator Richard Blumenthal, Congressman Paul Tonko and Congresswoman Valerie Foushee that demands an end to the policies that enabled “this type of predatory promotion.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The plane enabled him to take up to three flights a day, watching two games, throughout the 2026 World Cup.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Rather, he established a base line which enabled others to make priority claims.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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
"Great effort went into straightening rivers to harness them for our use, but also into enabling agriculture by draining the wetlands."
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Then for himself—with a kind of confident, enabling, serene power that flicks like a razor and then hides.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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