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are abetting

  • present progressive of abet.

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After all, the irrigation water and poisonous chemicals necessary to keep the playing fields luxuriantly green at all times are abetting ecological disaster.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2022

Ms. Iglehart’s passions are abetting and enabling her husband’s passions.

From New York Times Apr. 7, 2017

“We have to find a way to address some of these factors and conditions that are abetting and allowing these movements to grow.”

From New York Times Dec. 28, 2014

Nevertheless, there’s a case to be made that journalists publishing information from these leaks are abetting an “act of censorship, directed at Sony.”

From Slate Dec. 17, 2014

Now you know where you are, John Rallywood; you are abetting a crime, and a crime against your own country, against England!'

From A Modern Mercenary by Prichard, K. (Kate)