aid
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Soon all undergraduates will be required to take a class in writing, without the aid of any machine, and engage in the true struggle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Welsh councils will receive £4.8 million to provide "emergency food aid" and other support for people struggling due to cost of living pressures.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Becerra said his first priority is to secure the $30 billion in disaster aid that the federal government has failed to deliver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Baker claimed Winchell was sitting at a nearby table and refused to come to her aid, causing a flurry of support for her cause.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
He insisted that imposing political order on Haiti, no matter how much financial aid was provided, wouldn’t improve the problems of poverty and disease.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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In the U.S., federal prosecutors can recommend lighter sentences if a defendant substantially aids in the recovery of stolen property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
While others with hearing disorders can perceive certain low-frequency vibrations as sound, for Pride almost everything is completely inaudible without powerful hearing aids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Jade Fenton, 32, said her nan lost her home and nearly all her belongings, including hearing aids, jewellery, a wedding ring and other memories of her late husband.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Services that "do not involve ongoing emotional interaction" such as customer service, work assistants or study aids are not subject to the measures.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
He can’t hear a word she says, either, because he doesn’t have his hearing aids in yet.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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Trussler and Pippa Sproul both scored 43 in a dominant batting performance as Middlesex posted 278-6, aided by some below-par Glamorgan fielding.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Her memory has aided his development as a leader.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
The first leg of yen strength was driven by a BoJ rate hike and a round of government intervention aided by the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Revenue and Ebitda are expected to rise by mid-teen percentages, while free cash flow should be aided by stable annual capital expenditure of about 50 billion ringgit, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Mendel was aided in his studies by a long interest in breeding among farmers in and around Brno.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Foreign experts, including from China, India, and South Korea, are aiding Nepali teams in rescue efforts -- among them Dix.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
O'Neill explained that under North Carolina law, a person accused of aiding and abetting a crime can be held criminally responsible in the same way as the person who carried it out.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The number of people charged in Taiwan with aiding the shipment of advanced artificial-intelligence servers to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Increasingly popular in Europe and the UK, the company's budget-friendly, tech-focused cars come together at the Hangzhou factory with robots aiding the process at every step.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Gisa was there today, aiding the seamstress she is apprenticed to.
From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard
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