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
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
And the abrasive track surface was enabling Mercedes to overcome another weakness that has afflicted them this year - difficulty generating optimum tyre temperature for one quick lap.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2022
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
