helpmate

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But when Styron had depression in the 1980s she was a stalwart helpmate in his recovery, and encouraged him to write “Darkness Visible,” the memoir that has become one of his best known works.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

There he was, helping her with the occasional button, doing the cooking, driving her everywhere — a helpmate in life for an extraordinary woman who had been blind since shortly after birth.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2021

We see ourselves, our own troubled impulses, in her and, to some extent, in her helpmate Morgana.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2021

Her memorialization as wife and helpmate, and the corresponding backgrounding of her lifelong political commitments, misses the wider critique of social injustice that underlay her life’s work.

From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2018

He started as a junior equity analyst, a helpmate, not expected to offer his own opinions.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis