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improve

[im-proov] / ɪmˈpruv /


Usage

What are other ways to say improve? The verb improve usually implies remedying a lack or a felt need: to improve a process, oneself (as by gaining more knowledge). The more formal verb, ameliorate, implies improving oppressive, unjust, or difficult conditions: to ameliorate working conditions. To better is to improve conditions which, though not bad, are unsatisfying: to better an attempt, oneself (as by gaining a higher salary).

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“Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences” is as sharply specific as “Bird by Bird” is wanderingly wonderful: as winning a companion piece as two winning companions could create.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

About the author: Clifford Winston is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Market Corrections Not Government Interventions: A Path to Improve the U.S.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Appeared in the December 8, 2025, print edition as 'How the High Court Can Improve Politics'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Improve support for victims and reporters of wrongdoing.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

How we Seek to Improve Bad Arguments.—Many a man adds a bit of his personality to his bad arguments, as if they would thus go better and change into straight and good arguments.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm




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