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In literature, “enabled” often functions to link a character’s or object’s inherent or acquired capacity to a consequential outcome, emphasizing a cause‐and‐effect relationship. For instance, Nietzsche is portrayed as being enabled to enter a prize competition [1], while Chekhov’s witty nature is noted as having enabled him to avert personal tragedy [2]. In other contexts, the term highlights how technological innovations or favorable circumstances empower actions, as when lunar modules’ equipment is enabled to perform complex tasks [3] or navigational calculations become possible via precise measurements [4]. It also conveys personal and social metamorphosis, seen in instances where individuals are enabled to assume new roles [5] or overcome adversities [6], thereby underscoring a dynamic interplay between potential and fulfillment across diverse literary settings.
  1. Later, however, it enabled Nietzsche to enter for the prize offered by the University of Leipzig for an essay, De fontibus Diogenis Laertii.
    — from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  2. Chekhov just escaped the tragedy of suicide by introspection, and was only enabled to do this by the possession of a sense of humour.
    — from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  3. LRVs enabled the astronauts to carry heavy, bulky equipment and to place scientific instruments at considerable distances from the lunar module.
    — from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  4. 415 These 168 tables enabled the navigator to calculate his latitudes by observing the altitude of the sun.
    — from A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
  5. I am the happiest of men when I am enabled to serve persons of your merit.”
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  6. Donald's genius would have enabled him to get a footing anywhere, without anybody's help!
    — from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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