Example Sentences

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"It's just charcoal, the wind has abetted but when it picks up again it will just blow all that charcoal away and back into the streams, back into the air," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

If the transfer portal has abetted all this, then maybe we all should go hang out in the transfer portal, maybe even ask whether there’s a sommelier in there.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2022

A 2014 land use change that rezoned large swaths of St. James Parish from residential to “residential/future industrial” has abetted the development, as has its strategic location along the Mississippi.

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2019

In proposing a conclusive link with autism and advising diminished use of antidepressants during pregnancy, Bérard et al. are not just acting prematurely but irresponsibly, and some of the press has abetted them.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2015

The Web has abetted both plagiarists and plagiarism fighters in many familiar ways, from term-paper writing to news reporting and beyond.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2010