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Immune-suppressive cells became less abundant, while T cells became more active and better able to function.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Battle, better known by his stage name Look Mum No Computer, represented the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest with the electronic pop song Eins, Zwei, Drei.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Haggling revolves around the quality of the mushrooms—the more pristine and unblemished, the better.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
They are much better quality opponents than San José State and Fresno State.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
She was so upset when she got home from school that she was sure, 100 percent, that she would never feel better ever again in her entire life.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
That’s a sign that betters don’t see the feud with the U.S. as slowing an IPO.
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026
His betters resented Duchamp’s attempt at depicting movement and judged the title vulgar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
This week: Polymarket teamed up with the Golden Globes, displaying a live ticker for betters on the broadcast.
From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2026
Like my literary betters, I sometimes worry that reading distracts me from writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
"Rowan held it up to me. I saw it myself. Am I, too, playing a trick on my betters, Bronden?"
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
During the 2022-23 La Liga season he produced 0.56 non-penalty xG plus xA per 90, a rate bettered by only seven players with at least 1,500 minutes, all representing Barcelona, Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Among NL pitchers with at least 70 innings, his ERA is bettered only by Misiorowski.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
She is surely on course to break her major duck sometime soon and in California last Sunday it was only the brilliance of a dominant world number one that bettered the British star.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
His joint record of 20 assists in a single Premier League season was only bettered this year by Manchester United's Fernandes.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
These improvements bettered the quality of everything ranging from radios, to television sets, to small electronic calculators, yet the agency hadn’t done a good job of explaining these benefits to the public.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
They have 67 goals in 35 Premier League matches - with only Manchester City bettering their record in the English top flight with 69 in 34 games.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
And not to the exclusion of bettering their lives by paying attention to the nitty and the gritty, like making housing and higher education more readily available and, yes, fixing potholes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
Henley “simultaneously attempted to create an air of legitimacy for the Big U Enterprise by promoting himself as a reformed gang member focused on bettering his community,” Roosa wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
“But an exceptionally clever student could take a book outside, thus bettering himself without fear of lessening his much-loved faculty of sight.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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