enable
verb (used with object)
to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to: Students with vision impairments are enabled in the classroom with magnifiers and screen reader software.
enables
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present tense formof enable (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Kazan doesn’t sacrifice much of the character’s darkness, but rather enables Pugh, an actress who ably navigates purity and corruption, to play with both closer to the surface than usual.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
The technology enables artists and directors "to achieve things that until now were not possible," he explained.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
"It enables you to reach a much firmer and deeper understanding of the underlying reasons for the problems and indeed to seek solutions that come very much from the person and their family," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
This enables local large language models to process prompts and generate responses even faster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
But it enables us to establish the laws that would need to apply in any possible universe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
