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Nearly every story of demonic menace requires a young, helpless woman — or better yet, a girl — as the idealized victim the devil wants to possess.

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Then he locked in—and the Blue Jays were left looking helpless.

The hotel holds nothing but the constant reminder that she feels like a bad, helpless mother.

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He was back here as a chubby, chatty toddler, not the helpless baby in the NICU.

He punished an uncharacteristically sloppy New Zealand fielding performance - Jimmy Neesham put down a simple chance to dismiss Brook at long-on - and rendered the Black Caps bowling helpless when in full flow.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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