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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
abet .
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Examples
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Why do you think the pope aides and abets child raping priests?
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Why do you think the pope aides and abets child raping priests?
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However, as it does so, it still primarily aids and abets a publishing system that has become as insulated as a Tsarist bureaucracy.
Afterthoughts 2010
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Pakistan for years denied U.S. accusations it aids or abets the Haqqanis, and the increasingly public dispute is now straining ties, with U.S. lawmakers threatening to cut aid and military officials in both countries pointing fingers.
U.S. Secretly Met Afghan Militants Matthew Rosenberg 2011
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Gallegly also stated that the Bank of America "aids and abets identity theft and money laundering."
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Dick is the epitome of the hypocrisy of the GOP: Whatever happened, Dick, to the idea that not supporting our president aids and abets the enemy?
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The fact that parents think that they can send their kids to school to receive parenting is not solved by having an organization that aids and abets statutory rape and child abuse do the parenting instead.
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Despite the tolerance of suicide that there is now, it is still illegal for anyone to help another to die; the Suicide Act states firmly that "a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years".
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The fact that parents think that they can send their kids to school to receive parenting is not solved by having an organization that aids and abets statutory rape and child abuse do the parenting instead.
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Sometimes the system aids and abets the deception, as in Florida, where a loophole in the state law allowed districts to counsel low-performing students to drop out to go into GED programs.
John Merrow: With Testing, Where Do We Go From Here? John Merrow 2011
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