improvements

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In other words, human evolution may have reached a point where further improvements to the biological "hardware" supporting language would have come at too great a cost to maternal and infant survival.

From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026

County officials are examining the feasibility of forming an Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District that allows financing of public improvements secured against future property tax increases.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

The priority was to increase revenue to pay for needed improvements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

In recent years Wessex Water has made considerable improvements to Somerset's sewage system, reducing the risk of overflows causing phospate pollution.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin—who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut