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Recent Examples of aid
Noun
For instance, sources said the office was investigating allegations that disaster aid workers with the Federal Emergency Management Agency had skipped over houses that displayed signs supporting Trump during the 2024 election. J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025 Israel has barred the import of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian aid since the beginning of March. Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
In addition to aiding in disease management, winter wheat and rye are great soil builders. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025 The current junta similarly blocked relief in 2023 after Cyclone Mocha, denying visas to aid workers and holding up aid packages in customs. Chad De Guzman, Time, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aid
Noun
  • School board President Sean Harden, who was appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, delayed a vote on a budget amendment last Thursday that would have opened the door for a borrowing scenario to cover both costs proposed by Johnson’s top aides.
    Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Even former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is attracting a challenger — Saikat Chakrabarti, a 39-year-old former aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — though attempts to primary the Democratic powerhouse have failed over the last few cycles.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And sticking with the 2025 standard next year could put benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk, Ghertner said.
    Arthur Allen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • How to Have a Healthier Relationship With Alcohol Christopher Kahler, PhD, a professor of behavioral and social sciences and director of Brown University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, stresses that reducing drinking lowers health risk, and can have other mental and physical benefits.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Cursor’s desktop application gained popularity last year for providing coding assistance by drawing from Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Document the encounter and seek assistance as soon as possible.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Aleksander Barkov assists on both Reinhart goals to increase his total to 51 on the season.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Doctor Who historians know Marsh for her portrayal of Sara Kingdom, who ably assists William Hartnell’s Doctor in his fight against the mutant Daleks, on the third season of the BBC sci-fi series in 1965-66.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Grimes was a graduate assistant under Lou Holtz from 1981-82.
    Michael Harley, Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2025
  • However, when the original assistant is gone, there will be no alternative but to use its AI-powered replacement.
    Paul Monckton, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Those who embrace these technologies now will likely find themselves with a considerable advantage in the increasingly competitive digital landscape.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • And Osceola will continue to have homecourt advantage in the Finals against Stockton.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But in the meantime, those who know her are left to ponder an illness that appears to have consumed the caring mother, in spite of her efforts to get help.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Police departments in Carroll County could get help from the state with funding the high cost of outfitting officers with body cameras, if a bill introduced in the Maryland General Assembly is passed.
    Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
  • No poaching, only growing Earlier this month, Villasenor started working as a technician apprentice at Gene Butman Ford in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
    Jamie L. LaReau, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Aid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aid. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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