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artificial aid

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noun

  1. mountaineering another name for aid

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Everyone agrees that, in an ideal world, it would not exist, that drivers could follow closely and overtake without an artificial aid.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024

Others worry that the runners are benefiting from an artificial aid that wasn’t available to previous generations.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2020

But no doubt these guys climbed it using the artificial aid protection that was already in place before they tried to "free" it, perhaps several times.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015

I'd be AOK as a Cub fan with Mattingly in the Hall, especially knowing he did it all without artificial aid.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2015

Although seemingly very difficult to reach, the ruin is of comparatively easy access without artificial aid.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Mindeleff, Cosmos