How to Use enabler in a Sentence

enabler

noun
  • In the real world, the bots aren’t our overlords so much as the enablers of our boredom.
    A.o. Scott, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • There are a lot of people who think that the enablers got off scot-free, and Disney is a part of that.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The Office of Science is a major enabler of science in the U.S.
    Byadrian Cho, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The GOP is a mess, and Trump’s agenda and that of his close allies and enablers is a threat to democracy.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • If putting junk in the trunk is important to you, the two-row-crossover segment is a great enabler.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 4 Jan. 2023
  • At the core of it, finance needs to be an enabler of actionable insights for the business.
    Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But the Fed has willingly become the chief enabler of that failure.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Growing and leading a brand new business comes with agility, which is a huge enabler for change.
    Kees Kruythoff, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • First, there’s Pamela, who works whenever George needs, the main enabler of his stubborn battle with time.
    Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The increase in bandwidth available at a reasonable cost is the enabler.
    Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • But those who would thwart that progress won’t simply evaporate now that their most high-profile enabler has left the White House.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2021
  • The paper trail suggests that Cherkasov’s path was cleared in advance by Russian enablers and agents already in place.
    Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • That accounted for the first 60 to 70 pounds—really just an enabler to get started.
    Men's Health, 10 Nov. 2022
  • China has been an enabler of North Korea's bad behavior for a very long time.
    CBS News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Their message is not just that progress is happening, but also that hope is a crucial enabler of it.
    Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Technology is always the enabler, not the driver of the effort.
    Rajeev Sharma, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Then again, trying to make people angry about it is what’s behind it — and Carlson is an eager enabler of this kind of thing.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Then again, trying to make people angry is what’s behind it — and Carlson is an eager enabler of this kind of thing.
    Bill Goodykoontz, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Another way to view this is that finance is an enormous enabler.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2022
  • And a raft of other industries have got the same idea: Disney, Google, Meta, and even remote-work enabler Zoom want their people back at their desks.
    Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • His daughter was his golden child enabler, and then became something that needs to be destroyed.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 May 2023
  • If more such truths are falling through the cracks nowadays, a key enabler is the decline in the number of reporters sitting around looking for something to do.
    WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • On Wednesday top Democrats hit Pence as incompetent and as Trump’s top enabler.
    Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Hamas, with help from a cast of kingpins and enablers, targets civilians, most young, with a purpose and passion of Nazi proportions.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Technology is an enabler and the needs of technology should be driven by the needs of New Yorkers.
    Angus Loten, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • For all of its devastation, the pandemic has also been an enabler of action and change.
    Tom Sequist, STAT, 30 Mar. 2022
  • In a match-up between Trump, the Covid-19 enabler, and Biden, there might not be much point in delving too deeply in other matters, in terms of picking one or the other to be president.
    Libby Watson, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Rather, illustrate how in all functions technology is an enabler of change, not the creator of change.
    Nicholas Hinton, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • So in the early days of rooftop solar, net metering was an important enabler.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • But the spirit of ambiguity and simplicity that shines through in the book were my guiding lights, and time was my enabler.
    Rebecca Hall, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022

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