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ameliorative

[uh-meel-yuh-rey-tiv, -mee-lee-uh-] / əˈmil jəˌreɪ tɪv, -ˈmi li ə- /


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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

After more than half a century of attempts at ameliorative social policies, it is undeniable that there exists an underclass trapped by the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

From Washington Post May 30, 2019

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

Nothing offered save a few large places of general and promiscuous resort, which, under one ameliorative title or another, dispensed prompt refreshment amid furnishings of the most reverberant vulgarity.

From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller




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