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Recent Examples of helpfully
The Apple Health app helpfully shows your sleep breakdown alongside key overnight health stats, such as respiration rate and heart rate.
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Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
On another, Timothy Dial, the key-control officer, assuming that Friedmann was a laborer, helpfully led him to a stairwell, where Friedmann hid tools.
—James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
The lens includes a lens cap that doubles as a filter holder, which helpfully also works with the lens hood attached.
—Tantse Walter, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Coffee can reduce inflammation, blood pressure and oxidative stress (the last of which can lead to cell and tissue damage), thus helpfully impacting many of the physical signs of aging, Kao said.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
As Chadwick approached the tee, Drake helpfully reminded him not to hit the ball there.
—Tim Rohan, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
Benedict helpfully reminds his brother Colin (Luke Newton)—and the audience—that before meeting Kate (Simone Ashley), their eldest brother Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) had a mistress named Siena (played by Sabrina Bartlett in season one).
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 30 Jan. 2026
In this court, the accused — as a pre-trial intro helpfully informs us, invariably people who have committed the worst of crimes, mostly murder — have 90 minutes to use the Mercy system’s records to prove their innocence.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026
Aunts may be deeply embedded in the family, or helpfully aloof.
—Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
On another, Timothy Dial, the key-control officer, assuming that Friedmann was a laborer, helpfully led him to a stairwell, where Friedmann hid tools.
—James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
The lens includes a lens cap that doubles as a filter holder, which helpfully also works with the lens hood attached.
—Tantse Walter, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Coffee can reduce inflammation, blood pressure and oxidative stress (the last of which can lead to cell and tissue damage), thus helpfully impacting many of the physical signs of aging, Kao said.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
As Chadwick approached the tee, Drake helpfully reminded him not to hit the ball there.
—Tim Rohan, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
Benedict helpfully reminds his brother Colin (Luke Newton)—and the audience—that before meeting Kate (Simone Ashley), their eldest brother Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) had a mistress named Siena (played by Sabrina Bartlett in season one).
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 30 Jan. 2026
In this court, the accused — as a pre-trial intro helpfully informs us, invariably people who have committed the worst of crimes, mostly murder — have 90 minutes to use the Mercy system’s records to prove their innocence.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2026
Aunts may be deeply embedded in the family, or helpfully aloof.
—Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helpfully
Adverb
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Cover and process until very finely chopped.—
Jessica Saari Christensen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Mar. 2026
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The tone of both films is finely calibrated, so both moments carry a sense of absurd irony.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
16 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Santa Cruz, a hunk of volcanic rock wedged between the blues of sky and ocean and inhabited by over a thousand scrappy species of creatures and plants, feels magnificently wild.—
Betsy Andrews,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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Gill is a storm of rage, magnificently suppressing George’s base instincts for the sake of decorum.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Although 2010’s unevenly awesome Hellbilly Deluxe 2 was advantageously billed as a follow-up to his debut, The Great Satan actually sounds like a spiritual successor.—
Eli Enis,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2026
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The upshot is that the trend of AI for mental health can be perceived differently, advantageously so, when recast as a matter of AI for mental wealth.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
5 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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This friendly, vocal lady will happily greet you with sweet little meows and is always on the lookout for the perfect opportunity to curl up in your lap.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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The pair posed happily together in a photo shared by costume designer Mona May.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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In Dumas’ work, fights and duels and brave assaults on prisons are done grandly, out in the open.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
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There are, needless to say, daddy issues aplenty here — with Daddy himself out of the fray, retired to a grandly crumbling rural estate, grieving the deaths of his young daughter and devoted brother, and very gradually writing his memoirs.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Stellan Skarsgård approaches and holds her hand sweetly.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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But as our perceptions of Clark shift with various revelations, Bateman masterfully modifies his bearing from blandly sinister to sweetly sincere and back again.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
1 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Boldly off-kilter, brilliant and bizarre, its dark humor and taut psychological horror are laced together in a delightfully heady blend.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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The provocative, genre-defying horror flick boasts unhinged gore, a delightfully dark sense of humor, Madigan as the creepiest aunt ever, and a crowd-pleasing finale.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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During the first act, McCarthy plants several characters in and around the charmingly outdated hotel where Ohm is staying for the viewer to suspect of wrongdoing later on.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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There’s a stunning rooftop spa, which ventures beyond a traditional menu of facials and massages with some charmingly woo-woo treatments—go ahead and book a tarot reading or multi-sensorial writer’s block remedy.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 Mar. 2026
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