How to Use abet in a Sentence

abet

verb
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  • Did he abet the commission of a crime?
  • She abetted the thief in his getaway.
  • Their actions were shown to abet terrorism.
  • But it has been abetted, in the past few years, by a few factors.
    — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • If the car is registered to you, you can be charged with aiding and abetting.
    — Kathleen Purvis and Myah Ward, charlotteobserver, 29 June 2018
  • Numerous studies have detailed the ways in which climate change may aid and abet the spread of these pathogens as the world warms.
    — Henry Skinner, STAT, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The film has a jaunty tone of deadpan glee, abetted by its soundtrack of ’60s and ’70s jazz standards.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Some women paid a high price, landing in prison for abetting his life as a fugitive.
    — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Facebook was in the midst of a crackdown on false or misleading material that could abet the spread of the virus.
    — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
  • This is intended to give the impression, abetted by a press corps that was...
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Results like these, and the reforms that abetted them, are welcome and overdue.
    — Dana Stevens, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The men pleaded guilty in May 2017 to felony-level aiding and abetting in the sale of untaxed tobacco.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The scale of the effort then abets itself, setting up a destructive feedback loop.
    — Wade Graham, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2019
  • They were abetted by the Latin churchmen who forged the Donation of Constantine as the pope’s license to appoint a king of the Romans.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Trump has long complained about Kemp, who did nothing to abet Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
  • He was found guilty of aiding and abetting the attacker and sending money to al-Qaida in Yemen.
    — NBC News, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Amid an air of myth that abets a plot twist, the play reflects on prejudice and cruelty in a way that resonates for this country.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Coopting the appeal of sweatsuit comfort, this set adds enough polish to aid and abet your return to in-person plans.
    — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Great, yet another way to abet that pesky online shopping habit.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The offer requires Warren to plead guilty to a misdemeanor of aiding and abetting with a sentence of time served.
    — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 2 July 2019
  • According to the law, a traitor is a person who has aided and abetted a foreign entity in time of war, right?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Management still holds most of the cards, abetted by anti-union federal laws such as the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And in many ways, particularly in the United States, they are abetted by the law, or by the absence of legal penalties.
    — Sue Halpern, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
  • At around the same time, Stein — abetted by his then-wife Linda — increasingly began to scour the New York clubs for new talent.
    — Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Apr. 2023
  • There have been reports of fraud and identity theft abetted by deepfakes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Geovani Hernandez, 45, in March of two counts of attempting to aid and abet the trafficking of cocaine.
    — Sarah Sarder, Dallas News, 22 July 2019
  • But the bats awoke for their second look at Sandoval, abetted by self-immolation from the Angels.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • His son, abetted by a lie about weapons of mass destruction, also achieved a 91% approval rating.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2020
  • But as our research found over the last year and a half, people are very resistant to that change and there are forces that are eating and abetting that resistance.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • That shift has been abetted by workplace software such as Slack, with its chatty norms and many emoji options.
    — Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023

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