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Recent Examples of assistance Forty-nine projects will each receive $50,000 in unrestricted funding, as well as multiyear professional development assistance and community-building opportunities for the fifty-five individual artists and collectives working on them. News Desk, Artforum, 22 Jan. 2025 Note that assistance can still be provided via telephone. Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025 Serious needs assistance was also available for survivors of Hurricane Helene in 2024. Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025 Comfortingly also for Kyiv, his reference to aid for Ukraine leant on the need for European NATO members to pay more, rather than for US assistance to stop. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for assistance 
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Noun
  • Through Monday, Davis is one of just four players averaging at least 25 points, 11 rebounds and three assists (Towns, Jokić and Antetokounmpo are the others).
    Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The 13-year veteran dished out 4.8 assists last season for the champion New York Liberty, although her minutes diminished during the playoff run.
    Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • New Migrant Caravan Approaching U.S.-Mexico Border After Trump's Inauguration By Dudley L. Poston, Jr. 1 President Donald Trump will get the several billions of dollars of funds and support from Congress and the leaders of the border states to complete the wall.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
  • This vegetarian capsule includes a number of ingredients thought to ease stress, support digestion, and promote healthy hair, skin, and nails—including organic reishi, maca, chamomile, aloe, algae (vitamin C), and more.
    Kristine Thomason, Vogue, 26 Jan. 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
  • Jovic provided a big boost off the bench, with 17 points (including three for four on three-pointers), to go along with six rebounds and four assists.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Following a hot start to the season, Atlanta has fallen back down to earth and is in need of a boost.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The memo outlined exemptions, including emergency food assistance and billions of dollars in U.S. aid to Israel and Egypt, but appears to extend to many programs -- including one worldwide HIV program credited with saving 25 million lives.
    Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Theresa is among the domestic workers who have applied for grants for aid from IDEPSCA, which is an affiliate of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA).
    Simmone Shah, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The same study noted that businesses that offered words of encouragement, acts of appreciation or other kind acts helped improve engagement and accountability among the workforce.
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • By offering the bears verbal encouragement—and treats like carrots and apples—keepers can train them to participate in their own medical care: for example, by teaching the animals to hold out a paw for a blood draw or stand up on cue for a visual examination of the torso and legs.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025

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