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His doctors managed to ameliorate the flaw with insoles, but not the pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

The biggest risks to birds come from the climate: “Two-thirds of North American birds are at increasing risk of extinction from global temperature rise,” the society reported — a threat that wind power can ameliorate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Bringing Keller and Knight onstage somewhat sweetened the awkward position in which the show placed Storrie, but it doesn’t entirely ameliorate the White House’s intrusion into both hockey teams’ Olympic glory.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026

Exercising for two hours a day can partially ameliorate this issue, but it doesn’t prevent the problem entirely.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2026

The accused have told me and their counsel have told me that the accused who were all leaders of the non-European population were motivated entirely by a desire to ameliorate these grievances.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But a strange, melancholic case of timing ameliorates the documentary’s primary flaw: It didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2024

"Overall, greater international co-operation is needed to ensure that ESG and climate transition-related practices progress in a manner that ameliorates the current market fragmentation, and strengthens investor confidence and market integrity."

From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2021

Charity, while wonderful, ameliorates the symptoms of inequality, but it does not address its root causes.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2020

You say “at first” you turned down their advances, as if that somehow ameliorates your later decision to accept their advances.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019

The Sanitary Commission is one of the best out-croppings of self-government, and does honor to the people, and softens and ameliorates the warlike roughness of the times.

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count

On that, Buchbinder is optimistic that a key cause of rising rates, higher energy costs, will be ameliorated in coming months.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

The 40-foot elevation drop from the General Hospital forecourt to the commercial hub will be ameliorated by raising the low area about 20 feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

The deceit is either ameliorated or worsened by the obvious unreliability of Thomas’s testimony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

The judge said his segregation was ameliorated by him being allowed "some three hours per day out of his cell, which is more than twice the time allowed to convicted prisoners held in segregation".

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025

When I began work at the bank I knew that much of their suffering would be ameliorated.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Whatever you think of their intended goals, they would also have an unintended effect of ameliorating one of the worst features of the property tax: its localism.

From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2025

To establish its functional roles for ameliorating constipation in humans, the researchers used a clinical trial and a human-to-mouse fecal microbiota transplantation experiment in combination with metagenomics and metabolomics.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023

If Petro can fill the role of a balanced mediator, he stands to gain regionally by reviving commercial relations between Colombia and Venezuela, and internationally by ameliorating one of the hemisphere’s most nagging crises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

While ameliorating climate change is a big advantage of getting rid of cars, it is hardly the only reason to do so.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023

She had a notion about the air down here and its ameliorating effects on the circulation.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead