How to Use facilitate in a Sentence
facilitate
verb- Her rise to power was facilitated by her influential friends.
- The moderator's role is to facilitate the discussion by asking appropriate questions.
- Cutting taxes may facilitate economic recovery.
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Sure, social media has helped facilitate a number of social justice movements.
— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022 -
Emergency management is all about facilitating and being able to bring together everyone who can help.
— Umair Irfan, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024 -
Trade finance refers to products and financial instruments used to facilitate the export and import of trade and commerce—and, thereby, the smooth conduct of business.
— Dharmarajan Sankara Subrahmanian, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022 -
Above all, the goal of the signs is to facilitate encounter.
— Jeremy England, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020 -
It’s been an honor and a joy to be a part of this and to facilitate.
— Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023 -
Athanasiou, though, could be on the block, and the terms of the new contract should help facilitate a deal.
— Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2018 -
In music and the arts, freelancing has long been the nature of the work—and some schools have helped to facilitate that.
— Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 17 Oct. 2019 -
Fox Sports went as far as to help facilitate sports bets with its new app, Fox Bet.
— Frank Pallotta, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020 -
Behind the scenes, the Jets also cleared enough cap room to facilitate the trade.
— Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023 -
To date, seven first-round picks have been used to facilitate trades for some of the game’s biggest names.
— Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022 -
The atelier is the not-for-profit that facilitates public displays of the artist's works.
— Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2017 -
The man was made aware police would not facilitate the deer going to a food pantry.
— Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2017 -
One risk here is whether the big Cloud players will facilitate this.
— Steve Denning, Forbes, 25 July 2022 -
The good news, though, was that her tendon sheaths, which facilitate the movement of the tendons and flexion of the limbs, had been spared.
— Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2018 -
The campaign added that their team would work with the cafe to facilitate the transfer of funds on their behalf, Owens said.
— Fox News, 8 June 2020 -
That was too far out for Dr. Peters to facilitate a deal, Gehling said.
— Tom Lavell, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2018 -
The ports along the warm waters facilitated trade year round.
— Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023 -
Adults can either help facilitate her ascendance or get the hell out of the way.
— Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2019 -
Puppies may need some house training, and the crate is a good tool to facilitate this training.
— Traci Howerton, NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2020 -
Cargo space has 6 feet of length with the back seat folded and with a wide opening to facilitate loading bikes and boards.
— Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Nov. 2017 -
Jones hopes the Cowboys can help facilitate that change.
— Selby Lopez, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2020 -
What was your role in facilitating those parts of the album?
— Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024 -
Monet credits her friends with facilitating the fruition of her dreams over the past year.
— Essence, 14 Aug. 2024 -
Ryan is very athletic and can get to the basket and facilitate.
— Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 21 Apr. 2021 -
To help facilitate the deal, Mayfield agreed to take a $3.5 million pay cut.
— Steve Reed, ajc, 12 July 2022 -
The Texans agreed to pay $6 million of the money guaranteed Cooks to facilitate the deal.
— David Moore, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023 -
Experts cautioned that while social media alone is not to blame for eating disorders reaching an all-time high among teens, online content can introduce, facilitate or worsen disordered eating.
— Kaylah Jackson, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
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