was enabling
- past progressive of enable.
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
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
South Korea played its ultimate cultural gamble, pumping investment not into bricks and mortar, but information technology and the fledgling pop culture industries it was enabling; pop music, fashion, cosmetics, TV and film.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 16, 2024
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
