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artificial aid

British

noun

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

In Simpson’s youth physicians and surgeons made a habit of cultivating peculiarities of appearances and behaviour, but he was so shaped by nature as to attract attention without artificial aid.

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Gordon, Henry Laing

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