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enable

[en-ay-buhl] / ɛnˈeɪ bəl /


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The leading contributor, as my colleague Queenie Wong has reported, is Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who claims to have moved out of the state, which might enable him to avoid the tax.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"I think the institutional regulatory and policy case needs to catch up quickly to protect and enhance our women's players and enable them to perform maximally."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The US Treasury issued a temporary license Friday to enable Russian diesel to flow to global markets through April 2027.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The spectrum that SpaceX just said it plans to acquire from Grain Management wouldn’t actually enable the company to build a nationwide network.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The money that would enable her to build a better app, which would be so much better in the long run.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

It also enables researchers to explore two potential therapeutic approaches designed to interfere with aggregation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

"What we want is that once that information is shared, the knowledge about that then enables them to have a dignified process," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

This includes a partnership announced last month with Meta Platforms that enables the social-media company’s Muse agent to check out on behalf of customers of Shopify stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Having a job enables confidence to keep spending despite inflation headwinds,” said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

It tells you what to measure and enables you to predict, but it provides no answer to the question ‘Why?’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The natural chaparral’s ability to quickly regrow has enabled such a quick fire return interval in the Santa Monica Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

What began as a technical workaround ultimately enabled the researchers to explore a more interesting version of the phenomenon, one in which matter and the field could participate together in the quantum dynamics.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

ZedPay likely enabled sanctioned entities to swap between traditional currencies and crypto, placing it within a “high-risk sanctions evasion network,” Binance’s investigators wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

This was ignored, then overtake mode was reactivated before being disabled again, on the basis that it was fairer to do so than leave it enabled.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Their tenacity enabled 300,000 German soldiers to escape.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Ruter has since introduced mechanisms enabling it to monitor and delay incoming signals in order to control updates, it said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

I discussed those questions with Gibney, and what they taught him about Musk and our penchant for enabling men like him, in a wide-ranging conversation transcribed below.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Although practical applications will require further development, this atomic-scale approach could eventually help researchers manage both vortex movement and heat flow in future superconducting technologies, potentially enabling more efficient devices that consume less power.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Uber and Lyft didn't fight the unionization push, partly because the enabling bill also reduced the companies’ insurance costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Eventually, people were so smart that they were able to decipher nature’s secrets, enabling them to tame sheep and cultivate wheat.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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