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as in aided
to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end
offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment
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as in relieved
to make more bearable or less severe
the new ointment didn't help Josh's sunburn one bit
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as in prevented
to keep from happening by taking action in advance
they couldn't help the way things turned out
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as in benefited
to provide with something useful or desirable
being independently wealthy certainly helped him during his years as a struggling young artist
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as in improved
to make better
some minor revisions would help this essay immensely
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Recent Examples of helped
Then, in August 2014, her Modern Family costar Julie Bowen intervened and helped Hyland end her relationship, which, per Hyland's restraining order filing, allegedly led Prokop to threaten to kill her dog and burn down her house.
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
Misa played seven games in 11 days, collecting seven points, and helped Canada capture the Bronze Medal with a 6-3 win over Finland on Monday.
—Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2026
In the fall Jefferson County distributed emergency funds that helped Jeffco Eats.
—Karen Morfitt, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
Some said the elimination of a key source of demand could push down prices, while others cautioned the move would likely have little effect in those places, since an injection of new supply has already helped ease price pressures in many of those areas.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2026
Nvidia has helped fuel the fire, investing in companies such as ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Intel and CoreWeave.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
For the past several years, SAG-AFTRA helped put on an event during CES called the Labor, Innovation and Technology Summit.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026
The people who could’ve helped, who maybe were genuinely interested, never figured it out.
—Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Roosevelt’s media operation and the coverage that followed helped shape his legacy—as a conservationist, a trust-buster, and a family man.
—JSTOR Daily, 7 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helped
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The Canucks managed a push late, aided by a Tage Thompson double minor penalty and a pair of favourable bounces, but the gap in quality between these two teams was evident right from puck drop.—
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As his career skyrocketed, Chalamet spent years quietly training — aided by an expert on the sport, Diego Schaaf — by pulling a table-tennis setup along to productions ranging from Dune to Wonka.—
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She’s visibly relieved to learn that the potential young father plays the saxophone.—
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The other seven openings and the coaches who were relieved are Baltimore (John Harbaugh), Cleveland (Kevin Stefanski), the New York Giants (Brian Daboll), Las Vegas (Pete Carroll), Tennessee (Brian Callahan), Arizona (Jonathan Gannon) and Atlanta (Raheem Morris).—
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The athletes are not employees in the legal sense and therefore cannot be prevented from leaving for another university.—
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But a landmark land claims settlement in 1980 exempted Maine from federal Indian gaming laws, which has prevented the tribes from opening casinos on their lands.—
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For now, all that can be said for certain, judging by the latest implosion in his current employers West Ham’s fast-deteriorating season, is that nobody has benefited from his falling-out with Edu and the sequence of events that brought about Nuno’s exit from the City Ground.—
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And this new college football world — where players are free agents every year — has dramatically benefitted Miami because of the Canes’ knack for luring top players (Cam Ward, Carson Beck, many others) and their financial wherewithal to offer them competitive NIL deals.—
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Better yet, my hair-shedding has greatly improved.—
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Louisville improved to 6-0 all-time in Coral Gables, and the eight-game winning streak is the Cardinals' longest since a 15-game streak during the 2021-22 season.—
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The Northwest Avalanche Center’s representatives assisted at the scene.—
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Lopez was assisted by her longtime stylist Mariel Haenn, who has also worked with Heidi Klum and Hailee Steinfeld.—
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If Miami goes that route, some of that debt can be alleviated by releasing Hill.—
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The quality weather alleviated the hand-wringing about the rain during the buildup to kickoff.—
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Aisha kept her eyes respectfully averted.—
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But the crisis has been averted — Rebecca explains that Sarah didn't actually set the real Golden Bag on fire.—
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“Helped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helped. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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