Definitions
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- noun One who helps something to happen.
- noun One who
encourages a bad habit in another (typicallydrug addiction ) by his or herbehaviour . - noun One who gives someone else the power to behave in a certain way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The assumption you make by using the term enabler is that I am ENABLING.
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Also suggesting I was acting as an enabler is itself not logical as it assumes facts not in evidence, that is, that thetrolls would NOT be acting in an infantile manner or that they COULD not be infantile without MY contribution which is ludicrous
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Breitbart the criminal enabler is hardly a reliable source for toilet paper.
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Also suggesting I was acting as an enabler is itself not logical as it assumes facts not in evidence, that is, that thetrolls would NOT be acting in an infantile manner or that they COULD not be infantile without MY contribution which is ludicrous.
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Those of you calling Obama weak don't get the picture: he makes friends with Russia, the main enabler of Iran's nuclear program, and all of a sudden Iran is out of options.
Obama: U.S. not giving Israel green light to attack Iran 2009
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Suggesting I acting as an enabler is itself not logical, as it assumes facts not in evidence that is that they would NOT be infantile or they COULD not be infantile without MY contribution which is ludicrous.
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Mitch has been endlessly attacked by Couhig (the Nagin enabler) for being indecisive.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Especially when backing up to DVD/CD, I know a procrastination enabler is the fact that in a few days you might have all new files that will need to be backed up.
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Mitch has been endlessly attacked by Couhig (the Nagin enabler) for being indecisive.
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The “n” enabler is on the CD that came with the Airport Extreme.
bilby commented on the word enabler
"How sickening is the chorus of sycophants and enablers defending Roman Polanski, the 76-year-old Polish director arrested at a Zurich film festival over a three decade-old statutory rape case."
- Miranda Devine, Repulsion: Polanski's horror story, theage.com.au, 1 October 2009.
October 1, 2009