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adjective

aided

given help or support from someone or something

In a sentence

Six example sentences with aided, each labelled with its topic.

  • Aided by a walking frame, she crossed the ward twice on the second morning after the operation.

    Medicine

  • Computer-aided drafting let one engineer redraw the bridge deck overnight, work that once took a room of people a week.

    Technology

  • Her first pull-up was aided by a thick rubber band, and by March she needed no help at all.

    Fitness

  • Aided by a hand-drawn map from the innkeeper, we found the trailhead before the sun cleared the ridge.

    Travel

  • Aided by the new telescope, the team counted twelve small moons that earlier surveys had missed entirely.

    Science

  • Aided by a hard screen at the elbow, the guard finally shook her defender and hit the open jumper.

    Basketball

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