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Said Kamagate: “I don’t want him to have easy baskets. So I got to play harder with him. I’m making him better playing great defense.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

You will notice that performance over the past 50 years has been far better than it was before that.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Baird analyst Michael Ha puts the odds at better than even that Democrats win hospitals some relief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

People with more stored fat or greater muscle mass may be better equipped to withstand periods of poor nutrition and the physical deterioration that can accompany the disease.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

And even though I am still messing up on the piece I’m practicing, just holding Grace makes me feel better.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

His betters resented Duchamp’s attempt at depicting movement and judged the title vulgar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

This week: Polymarket teamed up with the Golden Globes, displaying a live ticker for betters on the broadcast.

From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2026

Billions are riding on such sports event contracts, and it isn’t just the wagers of individual betters.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025

It only betters you as an artist and as a person.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024

“Mind you, I’m not one to gossip. You remember that, Ophelia. The lives of your betters are not fodder for your amusement.”

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

But he was almost as prolific at creating them, making 12 assists as a substitute - a tally only bettered by three players in Premier League history.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

It also bettered the British under-20 record, three months before its former holder Dina Asher-Smith won the world title.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Among NL pitchers with at least 70 innings, his ERA is bettered only by Misiorowski.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

"I think there was an attempt to be smarter and involve the actual game, I think that was a tipping point, neither of those songs have been bettered since," he added.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

These improvements bettered the quality of everything ranging from radios, to television sets, to small electronic calculators, yet the agency hadn’t done a good job of explaining these benefits to the public.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

His revered mentor, José Antonio Abreu, who founded the educational program in 1975 with the conviction that learning music can, in bettering lives, lead to profound social change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

She said Chinese biotechs have “gotten very good with pretty-well-known targets—in bettering them, in really getting more precise.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Abdul Hammed currently works at a warehouse, but the 33-year-old has come to the apprenticeship fair in the hope of bettering himself.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Since 1 February, Forest have conceded 46 goals in the Premier League, with only Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool bettering them.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025

The other day, when the Pickled Onion was pestering me about my grammar and vocabulary and bettering myself, she asked me what I aspired to in this life.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan