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ameliorative

[uh-meel-yuh-ray-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

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

As regards the general range of ameliorative work, the members of the priesthood or clergy of the less naively devout sects, or the secularized denominations, are associated with the class of women.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen




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