as in assistant
a person who helps a more skilled person
to make money over the summer, Chris worked as a carpenter's helper
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Recent Examples of helper
Tom Wilson and Brandon Duhaime each contributed two helpers.
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Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
The Joy of Raising Girls Creating a children's collection for the first time might be challenging, but Williams had a great little helper.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
This can put a lot of stress on those helpers, and ultimately up your chances of injury there.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 17 Mar. 2025
Kira has become the director’s right-hand helper in vocal transcription, direction, production, and leadership.
—Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
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Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
The Joy of Raising Girls Creating a children's collection for the first time might be challenging, but Williams had a great little helper.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
This can put a lot of stress on those helpers, and ultimately up your chances of injury there.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 17 Mar. 2025
Kira has become the director’s right-hand helper in vocal transcription, direction, production, and leadership.
—Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helper
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Each agent, from autonomous drones delivering packages to personal AI assistants managing healthcare schedules, informs and learns from the collective ecosystem.—
Cathy Hackl,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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In November 2023 riots broke out in Dublin when an Algerian national was arrested after allegedly stabbing and injuring three young children and a care assistant.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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An aide said the tariffs are expected to produce $100 billion a year in revenue for the federal government.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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Law enforcement then set out to determine whether Clinton, or her aides, had transmitted classified information on a server not meant to host such material.—
Eric Tucker,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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During a meeting with Zelenskyy on the eve of the summit, Macron announced a $2.15 billion package in military aid to Ukraine.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Earlier this month, Israel halted deliveries of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian aid to Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians.—
SAMY MAGDY,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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Sixteen candidates participated in challenges for a $250,000 salary as an apprentice at The Trump Organization.—
Lauren Irwin,
The Hill,
10 Mar. 2025
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After college, Heil auditioned and was accepted into a two-year apprentice program at Ballet Austin in Texas, but when the program ended, he wasn’t hired.—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.—
Kyla Mandel,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the months since fellow senior Legion executives suspended Abrahamson without pay from his statewide adjutant job in April, a number of the roughly 8,000 members in Idaho have called for a change in leadership.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 July 2024
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During that period, his brother was hired into what appears to have been his first federal job—deputy director of the Office of Secretarial Boards and Councils at the Department of Energy.—
David W. Brown,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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Also in the power hallway is Beau Harrison, deputy chief of staff for operations.—
Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2025
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That puts Stuart at the center of the offshoot but also hints that the beloved sidekick, who could never quite catch a break on Big Bang, might not have better luck on his own.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2025
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He's got a little sidekick over there named Mark Paoletta who is one of the people in the portrait with Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo and Clarence Thomas.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Helper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helper. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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