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The vast majority of awards were doled out offstage during an evening far better known for its performances and stage antics than its prizes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

“It starts with me. I’ve got to play better and allow our offense to score more points.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The health board said colleagues at NHS Tayside remain on standby but both emergency departments are now better placed to support necessary care.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

A well-designed system could help us understand better what we don’t know as well as what we do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“My father’s a better man than you,” I shout.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

"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

His Premier League win percentage of 46.9% at the club is bettered only by Kevin Keegan.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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

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

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

The Cleveland Brown's Myles Garrett broke the NFL single-season sack record when he claimed his 23rd of the campaign on Sunday - bettering the previous best of 22.5 first set by Michael Strahan in 2001.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

Well, then you know how truly committed they were to bettering L.A. in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

“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