Assist
Assist verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Press
Press verb - To take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Executive Meddling: Happens in-universe to the Enterprise-B: the ship is deployed incomplete, missing key systems and crew for its shakedown cruise, and without other ships around to assist, so that Starfleet can show it off to the press.
Source: Film / Star Trek: Generations - After the guardsmen sent to assist him abandon him in the middle of the night, he decides to press on... despite having little-to-no supplies and only Sam and a disgraced squire (with a possibly haunted suit of self-motivating magic armor) as back up.
Source: Honor Before Reason / Web Comics -
His "Break the Witness" attack (an upgraded version of "Press the Witness" and only available in Turnabout Mode), where he walks forward while emphatically smacking some papers, can do insane amounts of damage, and if used as an assist it becomes an Invulnerable Attack.
Source: Paper Master
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