How to Use assistive in a Sentence

assistive

adjective

• Haller is now focusing on learning to walk with the help of an assistive device.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 13 June 2015
• The law is extremely vague on what species of animal may be assistive.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2021
• The task was to create an assistive technology necklace for a girl who was losing her sight and speech.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• The gripper on the end of the arm is based on a popular (and inexpensive) assistive grasping tool that Kemp found on Amazon.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2023
• One way to explain that is that with ‘humans in the loop’ and assistive AI, the AI has to be able to interact with humans in particular ways.
  — John Werner, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Each denial of assistive devices early in a child's life can lead to delays and deficits that may take years to overcome—if they can be overcome at all.
  — Kate Horowitz, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2016
• The toelessness is the ugliest feature of the socks (which have no attractive features) and the most likely to give them away as an assistive garment.
  — Andrea Denhoed, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
• Fortunately, there is a vast range of assistive technologies to help with these issues—some of which are very high tech.
  — Lisa Jo Rudy, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• Use an assistive device like a cane or walker, if needed.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
• Powell, Bosma’s director of assistive technology, says white canes have evolved greatly since his days at the School for the Blind.
  — Jenna Watson, Indianapolis Star, 15 Oct. 2017
• Meanwhile, passengers who travel with their own assistive devices face a whole other set of challenges in the air.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 24 May 2024
• Parks provides the kids with kisses and cuddles, and has also learned how to walk properly next to wheelchairs and other assistive devices.
  — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2022
• With their new gear, the leafy sea dragons joined the growing ranks of animals fitted with some sort of prosthetic (though their rings are more assistive devices than ones meant to replace a body part).
  — Karin Brulliard, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
• Transcribe Glass isn’t the first assistive device providing real-time captions in the user’s view.
  — Ramsha Zubairi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• In addition, interior assistive dressing straps help users pull the jacket on and off with ease.
  — Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 13 Sep. 2024
• Content created over a year ago may not work well with assistive technologies.
  — Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• The level of access to schoolwork varies from school to school, the coalition wrote, and some students don’t have assistive technology to help them communicate.
  — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 20 May 2020
• The Swiss company Noonee has made a markedly low-tech addition to the growing trend for assistive exoskeleton devices.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 July 2017
• Coming later this year, Apple will begin assistive touch for Apple Watch users.
  — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 20 May 2021
• Screen readers are just one small slice of assistive technology, Baker added.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2019
• Here in Washington, about one to two per cent of our voters will need to come into a polling location to cast a ballot and maybe use an assistive device or get assistance in voting.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2020
• In addition, Netflix has added badges on the web and iOS to make these assistive features more easily identifiable.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Miller works with school and public librarians to expand access to long-term loans and assistive technologies for young readers.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2021
• Encouraged by the results to date of its use of the new assistive technologies, Road to Responsibility is looking to introduce them over time at all of its group homes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• The Future of Assistive Robots Researchers are also looking at how assistive robotics might be used to help people age in place.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2023
• The most obvious might be as an assistive technology for individuals who have lost use of body parts such as hands, arms or legs, or have a health condition.
  — Bijan Khosravi, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
• Their first goal is to create assistive technology to help people who can’t move or are unable to communicate.
  — Jennifer Collinger, The Conversation, 19 July 2019
• Advertisement The guild would treat AI technology as an assistive tool for human writers, rather than a standalone author in its own right.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023
• The use of assistive technology like satellite photos on Google Earth can also help conserve resources.
  — Yec, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• But there’s a categorical difference between these assistive tools and generative AI applications, like Suno and Udio, which can produce full songs from nothing but a few words.
  — Adam Clair, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024