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also abetters
1
as in accomplices
one associated with another in wrongdoing
the man who drove the getaway car in the bank robbery was arrested as an aider and abettor
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2
as in supporters
someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support
without all the neighborhood kids as abettors, I would never have gotten all my chickens back in their coop
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Noun
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Authorities arrest the sisters and 17 accomplices, including Bedoya, Nicolás, Teófilo, and Ticho.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025 -
Delaying restrictions on Russia and its accomplices only means increasing the brutality of the strikes.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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How are Kirk’s supporters responding?—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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Back in 2001, a group of Enfield FC supporters realised which way the wind was blowing — and how far away their team was going — and formed a breakaway club.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Some allies are pushing for more action.—
Morgan Winsor,
ABC News,
20 Sep. 2025
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The separate but similar episodes have sparked a firestorm of accusations, predominantly from Democrats, that Trump and allies are using the federal government to infringe on free speech.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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McCarthy and his cronies engineered a hysteria over left-wing ideologies and their sympathizers, encouraging tactics like loyalty oaths and provoking paranoia over a suggestion that communist spies were omnipresent in America.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Tehran is not without sympathizers and clients.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
14 Sep. 2025
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