enabled

past tense of enable

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of enabled The company is working on a Siri AI-enabled smart home hub that comes with a six-inch display that users can mount to their wall or place on a table, Bloomberg has reported. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026 Consider Inside Membership a slick, Uber-like alternative to traditional PR agencies, streamlining the process of bookings, content creation and measurement of ROI, since it’s all enabled by proprietary technology. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026 The transaction that saw the smaller Paramount Skydance take over the larger WBD was enabled through Byzantine financing structures and a consortium of debt partners that include Middle East sovereign wealth funds. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026 And underneath was the corset dress, which enabled me to be free and move. — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026 With Game Picture Mode enabled, every pixel on the screen goes towards keeping you immersed in your games by ensuring that the entire display is used. — George Yang, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026 The space station's convenient location when the astronauts launched enabled the fast transit. — Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026 Many fire survivors have joined lawsuits against the city of Los Angeles and other entities over missteps that enabled or worsened the fire. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Expanding locations provides revenue generation, yet maintaining consistency preserves the brand that enabled expansion in the first place. — Tushar Mishra, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enabled
Verb
  • The technology allowed the referees to communicate with the replay center about reviews, scoring changes and clock malfunctions.
    — Jessica Golden, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The Department of Justice argued the new rules went beyond what the First Step Act allowed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The initiative’s goal is by 2030 to have empowered 3 million people to recognize the early signs of anxiety and depression, and take steps toward helping those.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The county is empowered by statute to investigate and prosecute violations of the Unfair Competition Law on behalf of California residents and to seek restitution, civil penalties and injunctive relief for any violations.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Under the rules of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), which governs high school sports in the state, such a switch is permitted.
    — Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Work and medical appointments can be permitted purposes under some forms of relief.
    — Karen Koehler, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • That's according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly and cautioned the plans could shift.
    — NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • As synthetic media and autonomous systems proliferate, organizations will need to verify identity, prove content provenance and determine whether AI agents are authorized to act.
    — Amit Sinha, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The soccer players were among many winners from the Asian Games who qualified for the military exemption.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • OpenAI and Chip Ganassi Racing qualified well in DC, but the race did not go well.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026

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“Enabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enabled. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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