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.
was enabling
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past progressiveof enable.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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So it was enabling a direct delivery of government services that wasn’t being done.”
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
In 2008, the Venezuelan daily El Nacional published a letter written by parliamentary workers that urged Chávez to “combat the corruption” Flores was enabling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Mr Tibbott said the use of the robotic operating theatre was enabling more patients such as Stacey and Ms Bulloch to be treated - and they were recovering more quickly.
From BBC ● May 1, 2025
The federal law was expanded in 2008 to allow survivors to sue anyone who benefits from an enterprise they know or could have known was enabling trafficking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
The historic transformation of music in the jazz age was enabling an equally historic, admittedly embryonic, social transformation.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
