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  1. in aid ofpreposition

    for; for the sake of - usually placed at the end of a question when quizzing a person about why they have done something.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of in aid of in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of in aid of in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of in aid of in a Sentence

  1. Eugene McCarthy:

    This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

  2. C.S. Peirce:

    True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.

  3. Plato:

    For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.

  4. Deputy District Attorney Julianne Walker:

    Their skills are providing emotional support and services, gascon continually puts forth ‘services’ as if he is protecting their ‘rights.’ He is not. He is abandoning their constitutional rights and thinks a band-aid of some type of service like counseling will make up for his refusal to protect their rights.

  5. The NTSB:

    Over the years we've completed many investigations without the aid of recorders and other investigative tools.


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    A bias
    B mediocrity
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