ameliorated
Example Sentences
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The deceit is either ameliorated or worsened by the obvious unreliability of Thomas’s testimony.
Mr. Xi could have ameliorated the damage by creating new avenues for productive private investment that would boost productivity and stimulate more domestic demand.
It would have been a lot to ask that Simkhovitch, idealistic and self-sacrificing, predict that immigrant poverty and its housing conditions would be ameliorated with time.
An influx of foreign workers had ameliorated the problem somewhat, but that has now dried up.
From MarketWatch
But Americans should not expect that all this can be ameliorated, much less erased.
From Salon
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