bettering
Example Sentences
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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
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
“But an exceptionally clever student could take a book outside, thus bettering himself without fear of lessening his much-loved faculty of sight.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
