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present participle of better.

bettering

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amendatory adj.
helpful adj.
improving adj.
mending n.
one-upmanship n.

ADJECTIVE

amendatory

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emendatory improving rectifying reformative reformatory reparative restorative

ADJECTIVE

helpful

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accessible advantageous applicable conducive constructive convenient cooperative crucial essential favorable friendly important invaluable practical productive profitable significant suitable supportive sympathetic timely useful valuable

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accommodating benevolent caring considerate contributive effectual efficacious fortunate good for improving instrumental kind neighborly operative pragmatic serendipitous serviceable symbiotic usable utilitarian

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cold cool disagreeable hindering hurting inappropriate inessential injurious inopportune insignificant minor nonessential trivial unfavorable unfriendly unhelpful unimportant unsociable unsuitable useless worthless

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disadvantageous harmful hurtful unconstructive

ADJECTIVE

improving

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developing

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correcting elaborating fixing remodeling repairing

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convalescent

NOUN

mending

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adjustment alteration ameliorating correcting curing enhancing fixing freshening helping rebuilding rectifying refreshing relieving remedying remodeling renewing renovating renovation repair repairing restoration reviving tinkering

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patching up

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neglect

NOUN

one-upmanship

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gamesmanship

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artfulness competition cunning cutthroat

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cageyness canniness competitive advantage competitive edge outfoxing outsmarting outwitting rivaling

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I humbly decline your request and actually would love to have a space where everyone is allowed to ask questions pertaining to bettering their understanding of their clients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

She said Chinese biotechs have “gotten very good with pretty-well-known targets—in bettering them, in really getting more precise.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It would, however, take 20 years for Croatia to emerge from the group stage of a World Cup again, bettering the original golden generation by reaching the final in Russia in 2018.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Well, then you know how truly committed they were to bettering L.A. in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

It is her only hope of bettering her lot and seeing her children again.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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