How to Use facilitate in a Sentence

facilitate

verb
  • Her rise to power was facilitated by her influential friends.
  • The moderator's role is to facilitate the discussion by asking appropriate questions.
  • Cutting taxes may facilitate economic recovery.
  • The attendees, a healthy mix of of young people and people who looked old enough to have been there during the old school days, also helped facilitate this throwback vibe.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2022
  • After that works out, move to other aspects of setting boundaries and expectations that facilitate work-life balance.
    Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In partnership with employers, many early child care providers offer ways to facilitate or guarantee employees a spot at a care center or ways to skip the lengthy waitlist.
    Jessica Harrah, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • There's not a lot of infrastructure south of us or north of us to facilitate a large flow of people, but what the last four years have shown is that more people are willing to try to cross this portion of the border.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • And the third described what 20 providers who tested the tool thought about machine learning, including what factors facilitate versus hinder trust.
    Simar Bajaj, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Still, another type of content is starting to grow and facilitate communication between brands and people.
    Yec, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • These kits include items that facilitate a calming affect for people who have sensory issues, such as stress balls, weighted blankets and noise-canceling headphones.
    Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Companies can facilitate and encourage mentorship and knowledge-sharing programs that allow team members to share ideas and best practices and learn from each other.
    Nick Leighton, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • More realistically, when conflicts arise, the league facilitates discussions between the schools and Fox that lead to solutions.
    Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Above all, the goal of the signs is to facilitate encounter.
    Jeremy England, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
  • It’s been an honor and a joy to be a part of this and to facilitate.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Athanasiou, though, could be on the block, and the terms of the new contract should help facilitate a deal.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2018
  • In music and the arts, freelancing has long been the nature of the work—and some schools have helped to facilitate that.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Fox Sports went as far as to help facilitate sports bets with its new app, Fox Bet.
    Frank Pallotta, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Behind the scenes, the Jets also cleared enough cap room to facilitate the trade.
    Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • To date, seven first-round picks have been used to facilitate trades for some of the game’s biggest names.
    Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The atelier is the not-for-profit that facilitates public displays of the artist's works.
    Carrie Napoleon, Post-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The man was made aware police would not facilitate the deer going to a food pantry.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2017
  • One risk here is whether the big Cloud players will facilitate this.
    Steve Denning, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • The good news, though, was that her tendon sheaths, which facilitate the movement of the tendons and flexion of the limbs, had been spared.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2018
  • The campaign added that their team would work with the cafe to facilitate the transfer of funds on their behalf, Owens said.
    Fox News, 8 June 2020
  • That was too far out for Dr. Peters to facilitate a deal, Gehling said.
    Tom Lavell, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2018
  • The ports along the warm waters facilitated trade year round.
    Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Adults can either help facilitate her ascendance or get the hell out of the way.
    Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Puppies may need some house training, and the crate is a good tool to facilitate this training.
    Traci Howerton, NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Cargo space has 6 feet of length with the back seat folded and with a wide opening to facilitate loading bikes and boards.
    Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Jones hopes the Cowboys can help facilitate that change.
    Selby Lopez, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2020

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