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helper

[hel-per] / ˈhɛl pər /


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Claude Code, the AI-powered helper for writing computer code, has become popular in recent months.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

The opportunities for deterrence by Iran’s neighbors, with the U.S. acting as helper, remain wide and promising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

In the low-income Madanpur Khadar neighbourhood, 36-year-old domestic helper Sheela Kumari says she has been forced to abandon LPG cooking gas cylinders for cooking after prices more than doubled.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

“Anytime I get an opportunity to, like, just jump out in the front and just be like ‘How can we do this?’ ... or somebody asks for a helper, ‘Let me jump in there.’

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

The helper brought him a blanket; they walked him to the edge of the rim- rock, and the medicine man told him to sit down.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko