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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

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

The general educational policy of the government is not to be regarded as a philanthropic or ameliorative effort to meet the conditions already described.

From Working Women of Japan by Sidney Lewis Gulick




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