ameliorative

Example Sentences

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Most of the ameliorative stretching exercises I found on YouTube blamed excessive desk work or smartphone use for such injuries.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019

However, no matter how many ameliorative measures are adopted, this truth will remain: There is no way gracefully — without unseemly accommodations — to graft onto universities an enormously lucrative entertainment industry.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2017

The thrill of the ameliorative solution is built into our mythology of the modern, right there on Baker Street, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2014

The condition of the American people when the New Dealers assumed office demanded ameliorative action, and this they strived to deliver.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2011

Any Scheme, therefore, that attempts to deal with the reclamation of the lost must tend to develop into an endless variety of ameliorative measures, of some of which I shall have somewhat to say hereafter.

From In Darkest England and the Way Out by Booth, William