In a sentence
Six example sentences with abet, each labelled with its topic.
Forging the shipping manifests got the clerk charged not with theft but with abetting it.
Law
Lax expense rules did not cause the fraud, but they quietly abetted it for eleven straight quarters.
Business
Smugglers moved the cargo, and a harbor official who looked away for a fee abetted every landing.
History
The bank never ran the scheme, but by ignoring twelve flagged transfers it abetted the fraud for three years.
Finance
Sharing the duplication glitch in the guild chat abetted the cheaters, and the whole guild lost its ranking.
Gaming
Ethicists ask whether someone who abets a wrong by holding the door bears the same guilt as the one who acts.
Philosophy
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