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- verb Present participle of
enable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective providing legal power or sanction
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Examples
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Bill Pittman of Alcoholics Anonymous, coauthor of the 1989 AA: The Way It Began, says that its use of “the word enabling first appeared in Al-Anon literature in the early 60s.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Bill Pittman of Alcoholics Anonymous, coauthor of the 1989 AA: The Way It Began, says that its use of “the word enabling first appeared in Al-Anon literature in the early 60s.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Bill Pittman of Alcoholics Anonymous, coauthor of the 1989 AA: The Way It Began, says that its use of “the word enabling first appeared in Al-Anon literature in the early 60s.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Bill Pittman of Alcoholics Anonymous, coauthor of the 1989 AA: The Way It Began, says that its use of “the word enabling first appeared in Al-Anon literature in the early 60s.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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What you see here are the weeks since we started deploying what we call the enabling force which went before the actual peace accord was signed.
Berger And Estes Briefing On President Bosnia Visit ITY National Archives 1996
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He seemed to verbally underline the word "enabling," to emphasize the U.S. support role.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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"Ultimately we'd like to build a plant like that but ... if the economics don't work out we're also looking at what I call enabling technologies."
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By CATHERINE HARRIS 2010
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The role of positive interactions in enabling cooperation
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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The role of positive interactions in enabling cooperation
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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The role of positive interactions in enabling cooperation
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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