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"We're actively encouraging AI training, AI learning, AI applications in our business to make us better."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“We are better safe than sorry,” Gupta said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Lin was appointed to the position in February 2024 and was tasked with making fewer, better and bigger movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The unrest came after weeks of student demonstrations demanding better conditions in schools.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
I could tell he didn’t like it the one time that I did swim a better time than him, and I didn’t bother arguing with him when he insisted that he let me win.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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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
Like my literary betters, I sometimes worry that reading distracts me from writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
An anonymous message from Ambrose telling me to mind my betters.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Brighton managed 10 clean sheets last season, bettered by only six teams.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Roared on by a sell-out crowd of 60,000 at London Stadium, the five-time global medallist bettered the Moroccan's mark - untouched since 1999, when Kerr was aged one - by nearly half a second.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Among NL pitchers with at least 70 innings, his ERA is bettered only by Misiorowski.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
She is surely on course to break her major duck sometime soon and in California last Sunday it was only the brilliance of a dominant world number one that bettered the British star.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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
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I humbly decline your request and actually would love to have a space where everyone is allowed to ask questions pertaining to bettering their understanding of their clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
Stewart says California has set "a powerful example" by bettering the quality and sustainability of its school lunch, "showing what's possible nationwide."
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024
“We were expanding beyond ourselves, beyond our own planet, pushing back frontiers, bettering ourselves.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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