The phrase "associates helped" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the assistance or support provided by associates in a professional or collaborative context.
Example: "The project was a success because our associates helped us navigate the challenges we faced."
Alternatives: "colleagues assisted" or "team members supported".
His tolerance for the corruption of his associates helped keep him in power.
In 2002, he and his associates helped organize an event in Greenwich that raised $40,000 for foal rescue.
But he provided a good deal of information about Morgan, and this, combined with F.B.I. interviews of other relatives and associates, helped Hoover and his spies piece together a startling profile of the Yankee rebel.
Their éminence grise is Ralph Appelbaum, whose New York company, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, helped create exhibitions for the $210 million Rose Center but who is perhaps best known for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
According to previously undisclosed Justice Department documents, federal investigators have been trying since 1995 to trace at least $650,000 that Mr. Al-Arian and several associates helped send overseas in the late 1980's and 1990's.
Watching the memorial service on television and seeing faces of friends and associates helped her.
The private intelligence firm Hakluyt, founded by former officials with MI6, the British secret intelligence service, said Mr. Heywood had occasionally worked as one of its associates, helping prepare due-diligence reports on Chinese companies for investors.
Multi-lingual associates help guide shoppers through myriad offerings on view in covered glass cases.
I had partners offering recommendations without my even asking, senior associates helping me with the wording for my résumé, and friends of the family offering up any job leads they happened upon.
"If you go into their store and an associate helps you, they're not charging you for that," she said.
Superintendent Cline said Chief Krecker's "tenacity and determination'' in leading investigators to his son's network of associates had helped break case.
