helpmate
Example Sentences
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“Emma Smith was far more than an appendage and helpmate to prominent men,” the authors wrote.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Tenor Ian Koziara, who sounded like he was struggling with a cold or something, was lucky to have the emotionally fervent Joshua Castille as a helpmate on stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2022
There he was, helping her with the occasional button, doing the cooking, driving her everywhere — a helpmate in life for an extraordinary woman who had been blind since shortly after birth.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2021
Her memorialization as wife and helpmate, and the corresponding backgrounding of her lifelong political commitments, misses the wider critique of social injustice that underlay her life’s work.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2018
He started as a junior equity analyst, a helpmate, not expected to offer his own opinions.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
