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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amelioration
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Their expertise drives significant profit growth and revenue increase as well as U.S. expansion.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025 -
If European election results last year - which saw an 18% increase in 16–34-year-olds voting for the AfD - are a barometer, the rise nationally among the same group could form a significant part of the AfD’s likely climb into second place.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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The upturn under rookie coach DeShaun Foster was commendable.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2025
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Manchester City’s recent upturn in form has brought their assets back on the radar for Gameweek 23 in Fantasy Premier League.—
Holly Shand,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Despite the upswing, initial claims have remained fairly steady in recent months and below historical averages.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
5 Dec. 2024
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There are also a ton of teams in the Eastern Conference — Columbus, Ottawa and Montreal among them — who appear to be on a durable upswing given the volume of young talent littered across those rosters.—
Thomas Drance,
The Athletic,
1 Feb. 2025
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Every manufacturer often benefits from a scientific breakthrough.—
John Sviokla,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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For the breakthrough to arrive at the end of a season so often difficult to watch would, in fact, befit Nebraska basketball.—
Mitch Sherman,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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But it’s supposed to be for the betterment of the players.—
Mitch Light,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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The gentle reminder that gang culture is just as American as the flag wasn’t loud enough to rattle anyone in attendance demolishing legislation and programs crafted with the betterment of these communities in mind.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2025
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And apartheid as a social and economic policy was fundamentally about engineering Afrikaner uplift.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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With the steady replenishment of the Santa Barbara groundwater basin since 2018, for example, the team detected areas of several millimeters of annual uplift.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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Ever since Abraham Darby switched to coal from wood more than three centuries ago, technological innovation has been central to every evolution in energy production.—
DANIEL YERGIN,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Fertility connects perhaps the most significant decision any individual might make with unanswerable questions about our collective fate, so a theory of fertility is necessarily a theory of everything—gender, money, politics, culture, evolution.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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That creates a problem for the industry, which has to plan at least two years in advance given production timelines.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
24 Feb. 2025
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That was also below a consensus forecast calling for a 1.1% advance.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Amelioration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amelioration. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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