helpless

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Appeared in the April 28, 2026, print edition as 'Base Turmoil Leaves Exiled Islanders Helpless'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Helpless as he hung upside down, McDonald and his fate were now in the hands of others.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Helpless to emerge from the shadow of her deceased scientist father, astronomer Lucy Muchelney finds a surprising patron in Catherine St. Day, the widowed Countess of Moth.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2021

They sing with a soulfulness and musicality that has the audience rapt, most particularly in the Act I numbers, Helpless and Satisfied.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2017

Helpless, I watch as she steps off the ridge, then twists.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes