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helped
  • past participle of help.
  • past tense form of help.

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Everyday investors helped drive the shares up 19% in opening-day trading, creating another superlative for Musk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

On Friday, signs of progress on a peace deal helped drive indexes back toward records, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average adding 0.7% and the Nasdaq 0.3% higher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

And the massive run-up in tech stocks since the end of the first quarter certainly hasn’t helped.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

That helped raise Taylor's profile in northern Europe.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

The work was easy — nothing we hadn’t helped Dad with before.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam