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They also alleged that leasing companies were "enabling"  and "approving exploitative agreements" at the expense of small businesses.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025

The United States was also imposing new visa bans on former and current Haitian officials whom Blinken said were enabling the violence.

From Reuters • Sep. 22, 2023

But if there were a way to counter the scale and pace of human depredations, he thought, it would come out of the laboratories and companies whose creations were enabling it.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019

She told them that by not doing this, they were enabling dependency.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2016

During those years when the nuns warned me about the dangers of intellectual pride and referred to Christ as Baby Jesus, they were enabling me to participate frilly in the liturgical life of the Church.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez