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How to use the word Helpful in a Sentence?

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If a friend or a relative tells you they’re having a tough time conceiving, try not to minimize it by saying, ‘ Just try to relax. ’ That’s really not helpful, it really does n’t validate how they are feeling in the moment.

Grace Bastidas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s when I thought, ‘I should also be sharing how special he is.’ I had no idea it would go anywhere or be helpful to anyone. dad Advice.

Emily Petterson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nightmares might be a sign of a larger issue, such as PTSD or a mood disorder, it is possible to treat the nightmares without treating the underlying disorder, but it may also be helpful to treat both the symptom and the disorder.

Joshua Tal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So we reached out to (Wahl) with a few questions, hoping he might have some time to give us some quick answers, he gave us voluminous responses to every single question that were so helpful. Putting the Trent story together, he was just so generous with his time. It’s a really, really terrible loss.

Brendan Hunt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a result, women are receiving conflicting or poorly justified advice as to whether HRT use may be helpful or not for future brain health, a balanced, well-powered trial of HRT over many years is the only way we will really understand whether HRT is harmful to brain health.

Liz Coulthard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t believe it’s helpful to encourage citizens to seek damages whenever they feel aggrieved in the slightest way.

Rick Just

Found on CNN
1 year ago

London Hollie was just very, very helpful, london Hollie was like, ‘ We’ve got this. Let’s get stuff done. ’ And we hit it off right away. We became a little team right away, in this chaos around us.

Hollie Savitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let’s not politicize this, that’s not really helpful.

Sheila Bair

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The plastics and petrochemical industries are making it impossible to curb the amount of plastic contaminating our oceans, new research is always helpful, but we don’t need to wait for new research to take action — the problem is already painfully clear, in the plastic accumulating in our oceans, air, soil, food, and bodies.

Judith Enck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New research is always helpful, but we don’t need to wait for new research to take action — the problem is already painfully clear, in the plastic accumulating in our oceans, air, soil, food, and bodies.

Judith Enck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I recommend having an open line of communication about these topics. Talking to children about the media they consume or comments they hear from others related to body image can be helpful in giving them a space to process the information they’re receiving.

Nicole Cifra

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Initiation of breastfeeding and lactation support is tremendously helpful so that people can understand normal volumes and intervene with supplementation only when medically necessary.

Susan Crowe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The average person doesn’t actually know the level of granularity that is helpful in accessing risk, when I talk to patients, what they’ll say is, ‘Oh, yeah, Grandma had cancer.’ There’s two questions I want to know: At what age was the cancer diagnosed, and what specific type of cancer was it? I need to know if she had cancer in her 30s or 60s, because it determines your level of risk. But they often don’t know.

Arif Kamal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Women, they’re good listeners. And you learn a lot by listening, not just talking, we do share information about what we’re doing, which is very helpful.

Kay Granger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because the Russian military has been such a failure in Ukraine, it is helpful to explain this as a war with NATO rather than Ukraine. This also helps justify whatever steps Putin might take next, and Russia has been very keen to play up the idea that this might mean going nuclear.

Roman Pilipey/Getty Images Herbst

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He’s made some progress but it’ll be about at least three more months, I think, until he’ll be back to normal, but the prayers are very helpful.

Paul Pelosi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

ChatGPT struggled with the most classic components of law school exams, such as spotting potential legal issues and deep analysis applying legal rules to the facts of a case, but ChatGPT could be very helpful at producing a first draft that a student could then refine.

Jon Choi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the things that Secretary Austin has been very focused on is that we should not be providing the Ukrainians systems they can’t repair, they can’t sustain, and that they over the long term can’t afford because it’s not helpful, and this isn’t about a news cycle or what’s symbolically valuable, it’s what will actually help Ukraine on the battlefield.

Colin Kahl

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now we carry one wherever we go with our phones, and it is so helpful. like with other new technologies, this could be a tool instructors use to help students express their ideas.

Leslie Layne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

be helpful to them that ain't got it so good. Dr. Dooley encouraged us at St. Mary's College in So. Bend, IN to do this. That was in 1961!

Dr. Thomas Dooley

added by kathmowen
1 year ago

South Carolia Democrats are honored to be in the first position, i do want to be on the record though that I am not satisified with the notion that it is helpful to our process to have three primaries in a three or four day period.

Carol Fowler

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I applaud the congressman for calling out the administration's hypocrisy when it comes to our domestic fisheries and their policies, this is not the first time that something like this has happened, but it is good to see, and particularly a Democrat pointing it out because this administration has frankly not been friendly or helpful to our domestic fishing industry.

Bob Vanasse

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I hate to bother you with this matter, but it appears that it is not going to stop; and such is not helpful. The vice chair ran for chair of the Alabama Democratic Party, she lost but she refuses to accept the results, i was elected as chair without a runoff. But our vice chair is doing everything at her command to frustrate, undermine, interfere, and prevent the Democratic Party from moving foward. She is also challenging my leadership.

Chairman Randy Kelley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are a mentor and a coach and an adviser to candidates for whatever they need. We really customize the service because every campaign and candidate is really different, and we're really there to be helpful in whatever way they need us to be and really are there throughout the entire life cycle of a candidate.

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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