1827, Henry Hallam,The Constitutional History of England from the Accession ofHenry VII. to the Death ofGeorge II.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:John Murray,[…],→OCLC:
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to youraid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
2025 February 2, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, “Senior USAID security officials put on leave after attempting to refuse Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems”, inCNN[1]:
Musk said he checked with Trump “a few times” and Trump confirmed he wants to shut down the agency, which dispenses billions in humanitarianaid and development funding annually.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as anaid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
2019, Julia Boffey,Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle, page71:
In this parliament was granted to the king for defence against the Scots twoaids and two quindecims, the which twoaids did not extend over two quindecims.
Robert Michael Wills,They Came from the Drain (page 206)
Suddenly, the general'said entered the room and walked in a straight line, coming to a halt in front of the desk, standing at attention, waiting for the general to recognize him, allowing theaid to speak.
You speedy helpers[…] Appear andaid me in this enterprise.
2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, inThe Onion AV Club[2]:
Smith isaided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, weaided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.
