How to Use enabler in a Sentence

enabler

noun
  • But money is the great enabler.
    — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Those adults are gone and he is now surrounded with enablers.
    — Arts Editor, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Cloud is an enabler, not a strategy.
    — Shuchi Agrawal, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Trump and his enablers have made my country the laughingstock of the world.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2017
  • Senseless to keep steroid guys out when the enablers are in Hall of Fame.
    — Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The good news is that these are not opposing forces, but enablers for each other.
    — Jane Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • There was a whole circuit of enablers around him, adults who permitted this to go on.
    — Amy Julia Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Rooting the enablers out of that program would be more helpful.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Angry women are not to be trusted, which suits abusers and their enablers just fine.
    — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The Fed is the proverbial potted plant, not an enabler.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • In the real world, the bots aren’t our overlords so much as the enablers of our boredom.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The churches allied with him; the manosphere; all of his enablers and allies.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Trump and his apologists and enablers should take note, because this does not bode well for them.
    — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Aug. 2017
  • That etiquette is named as the enabler in cases such as this — and a lot worse ones — is unjust.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
  • Bygone heretic hunters and their enablers have become the hunted.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2017
  • But no redactions of clients, enablers, and see-no-evil associates.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Harris has been the enabler in chief for Crooked Joe this entire time.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024
  • Europe must quickly find a way of beefing up its stocks of enablers, the white paper said.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
  • Your rights now depend on the grievances of one petulant old man and his shameless enablers.
    — Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
  • But not all of those who surround Cosby see themselves as enablers.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 17 June 2017
  • Both defenders look great and can be very handy enablers or genuine playable options.
    — Abdul Rehman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • What was once a cost of compliance is now a core enabler of revenue, trust and resilience.
    — Avtar Sehmbi, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Growing and leading a brand new business comes with agility, which is a huge enabler for change.
    — Kees Kruythoff, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • There are a lot of people who think that the enablers got off scot-free, and Disney is a part of that.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Is this cheap pasta the solution to over-spending or the enabler?
    — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Then, as a team member, as a government enabler, or as an investor, join them.
    — Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • If putting junk in the trunk is important to you, the two-row-crossover segment is a great enabler.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 4 Jan. 2023
  • So the Assistant was the enabler.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
  • At the core of it, finance needs to be an enabler of actionable insights for the business.
    — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But the mullahs and their enablers intend to bring about evil out of a misguided sense of love of country.
    — Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025

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