aid
Example Sentences
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“Instead of trying to be an aid to people it is treating them in an evil way. It is very disheartening.”
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
Page also wants more people to learn resuscitation skills, either through first aid training or even at home.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
In Debel, close to the Israeli border, inhabitants prepared to celebrate Easter Sunday despite the sound of bombardment around their village, now almost totally cut off from the world and dependent on aid deliveries.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Otto von Bismarck’s special providence for “fools, drunks, and the United States of America” may be coming to the aid of the current incumbent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Then, remembering La Llorona and all that she had done for us so far, I began to wonder why she had not been the one to come to our aid.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.