habilitating

verb

present participle of habilitate
as in rehabilitating
to make better in behavior or character believes that society should be responsible for habilitating nonviolent offenders

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  1. rehabilitating
  2. redeeming
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  • The nonprofit provides lifelong care for aging, retired, rescued, and rehabilitating horses, while also offering volunteer opportunities and summer camps to teach kids about horse care.
    — Kaley Fedko, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • City staff are proposing a second bond of the same size to pay for building, preserving and rehabilitating more apartments, single-family homes and shelters.
    — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of rehabilitating
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  • Despite these issues, salty whey still has one redeeming quality.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
  • One thing regulators are not going to do is kill the idea of exchanging securities for shares, because all the big ETFs rely on redeeming and creating units that aren’t taxable as part of their daily operations.
    — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of redeeming
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“Habilitating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habilitating. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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