Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Usage example: offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment
Oppose
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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They'd rather let him fight and help him out than actively oppose to something no one can really escape from.
Source: Open-Minded Parent - The "girly" hobby is singing, the "manly" one is basketball, and it doesn't help his dad is also the basketball coach, There are also elements of this with Gabriella but her mother doesn't oppose the singing, it's more that her friends want her to help them win the Scholastic Decathlon instead.
Source: Billy Elliot Plot - In The 100, there's a contingent of people inside Mount Weather who oppose the use of Outsiders as Human Resources and help the captured Ark kids fight back against the Mountain's security personnel.
Source: La Resistance / Live-Action TV
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