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assistance

[uh-sis-tuhns] / əˈsɪs təns /


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Laguna Beach Marine Safety, along with the assistance of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Harbor Patrol, responded to the scene, and she was identified as the missing victim by the Orange County coroner’s office.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The last El Nino cycle in 2023-2024 brought southern Africa's worst drought in more than a century, leaving 61 million people in need of assistance, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Most single adults who become homeless each year are homeless under acute circumstances, meaning they are potentially reversible with timely assistance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

About 140,000 people in veteran households benefit from this program each year, which provides emergency cash assistance, move-in expenses and temporary rental assistance for up to two years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

God, angels, and extraterrestrials have yet to come to our assistance; yet more and more phenomena have proved explicable by the dim reason of human beings.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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