👉 In the context of programming, a "companionized" function or method is one that takes another function as an argument and returns its result. This is similar to a helper function in functional programming languages like Python's functools module, where it allows you to define a new function with no side effects by providing the arguments directly. For example: ```python def my_companionized_function(a, b): return a + b # Example usage: print(my_companionized_function(2