Thesaurus / ameliorate
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Nicole Goodkind, politics writerI’ve read over and over that the only way to ameliorate jet lag is to get your body clock on the clock of where you are as quickly as possible.
TRIED AND TRUE TRICKS FOR GETTING OVER JET LAGRACHEL KINGDECEMBER 27, 2020FORTUNE
It’s important to stick around for 15 minutes in case you have an allergic reaction so that you can be treated with epinephrine to ameliorate your symptoms.
HEALTH-CARE WORKER IN ALASKA HAS SEVERE ALLERGIC REACTION TO CORONAVIRUS VACCINELENA H. SUN, JOEL ACHENBACHDECEMBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Using technology to ameliorate the burden of technology surrounding our new remote-working lives is a great example of a grafting on a solution after the fact.
THE CASE FOR A VIRTUAL COMMUTE WHEN WORKING FROM HOMEADAM LASHINSKYOCTOBER 1, 2020FORTUNE
Moynihan used social science research to reveal the failures of civil rights laws to ameliorate economic and racial inequality.
CAN SCIENCE HELP CREATE A MORE JUST SOCIETY?NANCY SHUTEJULY 4, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
Still the King managed to retain his popularity, and in his own way attempted to ameliorate the lot of his subjects.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
And the Church never, never raised a finger to ameliorate their condition.
THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISMDR. D.M. BROOKS
That was an evil with which the clergy did not grapple; they would ameliorate it, but did not seek to remove it.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORD
By the law de provinciis ordinandis, he sought to regulate the provinces and ameliorate their administration.
HISTORY OF JULIUS CAESAR VOL. 1 OF 2NAPOLEON III, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, 1808-1873.
Many physicians had exerted their utmost skill in endeavouring to ameliorate his condition.
BARON BRUNOLOUISA MORGAN
The absence of a successor in the direct line did not ameliorate the lot of the Grand Princes nephew, Dimitri.
THE RISE OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIREHECTOR H. MUNRO
WORDS RELATED TO AMELIORATE
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- ameliorate
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- attend
- change
- clean up
- control
- correct
- debug
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- go over
- heal
- help
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- repair
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- set right
- set to rights
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- square
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- treat
- upgrade
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