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UK Sport ranks athletes by how likely they are to win medals at major events, and gives more funding to those whose chances it believes are better.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Matejka advised using any market weakness caused by surging oil prices to add to portfolios ahead of likely better trading when companies report their third-quarter earnings results in October and November.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Russian engineers, through successive iterations, added speed and survivability thanks to better electronics for navigation and communications, overcoming much of Ukraine’s defenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Said Harbaugh: “Have to get things to get better, for sure. You know, better job coaching, better job practicing, better job executing. All those things need to be elevated.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The more she did it, the better she would get.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

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

"Rowan held it up to me. I saw it myself. Am I, too, playing a trick on my betters, Bronden?"

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

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

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

Brighton managed 10 clean sheets last season, bettered by only six teams.

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

She was supposed to want to meet men, to keep her eyes open; she was supposed to see The General as an option that could be bettered.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

I think we still have a long way to go in terms of bettering ourselves, but we’ve come a long way from the beginning.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

United have shut out their opponents on five occasions this term, with only Liverpool bettering them with six.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2024

At all these studies Ged was apt, and within a month was bettering lads who had been a year at Roke before him.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin