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adjective

as in assisting

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verb

present participle of facilitate
as in promoting
to free from obstruction or difficulty several religious organizations are involved in the effort to facilitate the settlement of the immigrants arriving in the area

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Recent Examples of facilitating
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With affordable housing now hard to find in both red and blue states, representatives on both sides of the aisle committed to facilitating the growth of the housing supply. — Eleni N. Gage, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2026 Sorloth played high, facilitating Arsenal midfielder Martin Odegaard to rotate wide and pull deeper to get on the ball. — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 1 July 2026 The firm helps athletes, teams and leagues grow—and eventually cash in on—their overseas fanbases, with organizing tours and activations, facilitating sponsorships, local social media accounts and region-specific content. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 26 June 2026 CasaCuba building will be a multidimensional cultural and academic center facilitating the study of Cuban heritage, history, research and culture. — Florida International University, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026 Corporate hospitality has become a strategic asset, facilitating relationship building, dealmaking and international commercial diplomacy. — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 The Board is committed to ensuring that the revote is conducted fairly, transparently, and in full compliance with all applicable legal requirements, while facilitating a seamless Board transition prior to the start of the 2026–2027 school year in September. — Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 26 June 2026 In 2023, the Ukrainian government sanctioned him for allegedly continuing to engage with Russia, paying taxes to Moscow and facilitating business transactions through his liquor business in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014. — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026 The indictment accused Owens of soliciting and accepting at least $115,000 in cash as well as facilitating more than $80,000 in payments to his alleged co-conspirators, including $50,000 for Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba's reelection campaign. — ABC News, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for facilitating
  1. promoting
  2. accelerating
  3. improving
  4. easing
  5. simplifying
  6. assisting
  7. smoothing
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  • Good Chop is dedicated to providing the finest cuts of meat while promoting sustainable practices.
    — Rachel Cortez, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • The company threw a lavish caviar party at Cannes and in May hosted panels promoting its cinematic tool at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event in Culver City.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Definition of promoting
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  • The financial struggles led to them not being able to pay vendors, which led key brands to stop sending the retailers products to sell, further accelerating its decline.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 30 June 2026
  • The move comes amid rising demand for local asset servicing, with Saudi Arabia accelerating the development of its capital markets as part of its Vision 2030 agenda.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 30 June 2026
Definition of accelerating
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  • Pogačar is only improving as a rider, a scary proposition for man with his extraordinary palmares.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Higgins also says that improving resilience will mean changing the city’s building code to allow innovative new technology.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Definition of improving
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  • From California to North Carolina, yellow electric school buses are sending power back to the grid, easing some strain when demand spikes during heat waves.
    — Lisa Baertlein, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • But the central bank removed from its statement an easing bias.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of easing
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  • Shared inference infrastructure is vital for fiscal viability, optimizing compute allocation, reducing TCO, and simplifying platform management.
    — Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Tribalists and traditionalists have controlled the terms of the battle, one by simplifying, the other by denying, the way privilege has shaped our compound selves.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
Definition of simplifying
Verb
  • There were 407 traffic stops and 144 traffic services, which includes debris removal, assisting with disabled or hazardous motor vehicles, according to state police on Friday.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 July 2026
  • No one was ever charged with pulling the trigger, but three other men, Paul McIntyre, 58, Peter Cavanagh, 37, and Jordan Gareth Devine, 25, were charged with murder as accomplices for encouraging or assisting the shooter.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Definition of assisting
Verb
  • Spanx’s Shape Authentic 360 jeans are designed with all-over compression and a smoothing panel at the stomach that makes wearers feel snatched.
    — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 3 July 2026
  • Thanks to this fit of irrational exuberance, the NBA realized the benefits of cap smoothing and more-friendly contract-extension language in the collective bargaining agreement.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of smoothing

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