abettors

variants also abetters
plural of abettor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for abettors
Noun
  • Neither of the two accomplices in the case received a death sentence.
    Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Ludwig Kaiser has been portraying the masked character, with Dunne and Bate acting as his accomplices in recent weeks.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The chorus of boos at the final whistle showed what supporters made of it.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Back in the 1920s, even the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin called on his British supporters to affiliate with the Labour Party instead of fighting it.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Money was flowing in, as the US and its allies attempted to rebuild civil society destroyed by the Taliban’s brutal rule from 1996 to 2001, even as fighting and insecurity still plagued swathes of the nation.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That reputation attracts opportunities, allies, and trust.
    Sinéad O'Sullivan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Koestler observes, crying is a signal not just of surrender but of neediness, designed to elicit succor and comfort from sympathizers.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
  • McCarthy and his cronies engineered a hysteria over left-wing ideologies and their sympathizers, encouraging tactics like loyalty oaths and provoking paranoia over a suggestion that communist spies were omnipresent in America.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Abettors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abettors. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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