abet
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brew, ferment, foment, incite, instigate, pick, provoke, raise, stir (up), whip (up)
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Other Republican officials have been aiding and abetting Trump’s pigheadedness, too, in some cases hoping to turn it to their advantage. — Catherine Rampell, The Denver Post, "Rampell: Trump’s tendency to double down on bad ideas doesn’t bode well for the economy," 25 Aug. 2019 The fact of the matter is that Roberts, abetted by a conservative majority, is uninterested in policing the ground rules of modern democracy, and originalism is the figleaf intended to camouflage that desire. — Guy-uriel E. Charles, Time, "SCOTUS's Ruling on Gerrymandering Endangers US Democracy," 11 July 2019 This venom is made of a toxic form of identity politics, aided and abetted by critical race and gender theory. — Sahil Handa, National Review, "What Conservatives Get Wrong about the Campus Wars," 4 July 2019 That’s when the tension — abetted by mousetraps, a chain saw and monster tales — soars as high as Aaron’s beloved alps: An idyllic family vacation morphs into a quest for survival when Tristan disappears. — New York Times, "The Week in Arts: Sarah Jessica Parker Back for More ‘Divorce’; a Farewell to ‘My Fair Lady’," 29 June 2019 If social media’s greatest contribution is democratizing communications, their greatest threat is in abetting cynicism and distrust. — David Cole, The New York Review of Books, "David Cole," 23 May 2019 The practice allegedly continued underground for decades after the war, evolving into an illicit child trafficking operation abetted by doctors and Catholic nuns and clergy. — Washington Post, "She became the face of Spain’s stolen-baby scandal. Her family says she wasn’t abducted.," 13 July 2019 Indeed, while changes in both the nature of work and anti-union government policies abetted organized labor’s decline, Rolf is right to observe that the union business model may be an even bigger problem. — Eli Lehrer, National Review, "The Next Union Era," 25 July 2019 Geovani Hernandez, 45, in March of two counts of attempting to aid and abet the trafficking of cocaine. — Sarah Sarder, Dallas News, "Former South Texas officer who helped smuggle cocaine will spend 20 years behind bars," 22 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'abet.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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