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“That’s part of it. Then I think, frankly, there are opportunities for us to play better a little bit as well.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
"Footie legend: Marriage in a much better place after going teetotal," is the Sunday Mirror's take.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
He thinks companies are doing a much better job at catering to older Americans these days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The more recurring bills that are automated, the better.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026
“That was a good practice. Your form’s looking better already,” he says as we set out on the footpath toward my house.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Now, 12 years and many political lifetimes later, they read as quaint and out-of-touch, like a grandfather telling his grandson to never contradict his betters.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
That’s a sign that betters don’t see the feud with the U.S. as slowing an IPO.
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026
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
I replied that Pro Bono was my elder, and I felt it unseemly to speak when my betters were conversing.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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During the 2022-23 La Liga season he produced 0.56 non-penalty xG plus xA per 90, a rate bettered by only seven players with at least 1,500 minutes, all representing Barcelona, Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Overall, England's record of nine home Ashes wins in Leeds is bettered only by their 17 at The Oval, and The Oval has hosted 36 Ashes Tests compared to Headingley's 26.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
That performance, bettered only by leading pair Adrianna Sulek-Schubert of Poland and Ireland's Kate O'Connor, followed a time of 14 seconds flat in the 100m hurdles which ranked 15th overall.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Among NL pitchers with at least 70 innings, his ERA is bettered only by Misiorowski.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
I’d sat shotgun because I thought it bettered our chances of surviving a head-on car crash if both of my parents weren’t in the front.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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In reaching 200 in 114 balls, Brook registered the fastest double ton by anyone in an ODI, bettering the 117 deliveries of India's Shubman Gill against West Indies only last month.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 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
And not to the exclusion of bettering their lives by paying attention to the nitty and the gritty, like making housing and higher education more readily available and, yes, fixing potholes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
United have shut out their opponents on five occasions this term, with only Liverpool bettering them with six.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2024
It is her only hope of bettering her lot and seeing her children again.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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