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Off-track conversation has been dominated by this all year, and rules are changing for next year to alter the energy split to try to ameliorate the issue.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Abbott has tried to ameliorate these concerns by requiring all new data centers to be audited by the state, a step that policy experts and Democrats have criticized as insufficient.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

The biggest risks to birds come from the climate: “Two-thirds of North American birds are at increasing risk of extinction from global temperature rise,” the society reported — a threat that wind power can ameliorate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

The Vatican has tried to mediate between Washington and Havana, dissuade the U.S. from using force and ameliorate an economic crisis compounded this year by a U.S. oil blockade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

No matter how sedulously Ben and Mary Anne prepared for the nightmare, nothing could ameliorate their discomfort at entering a new high school for their annual pilgrimage among strangers.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

In a way, this ameliorates those perfections of generational righteousness that some people took issues with, especially in early episodes where the character exemplified some of the worst millennial clichés imaginable.

From Salon ● May 12, 2022

"Overall, greater international co-operation is needed to ensure that ESG and climate transition-related practices progress in a manner that ameliorates the current market fragmentation, and strengthens investor confidence and market integrity."

From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2021

Charity, while wonderful, ameliorates the symptoms of inequality, but it does not address its root causes.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2020

You say “at first” you turned down their advances, as if that somehow ameliorates your later decision to accept their advances.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.—From the French.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch

On that, Buchbinder is optimistic that a key cause of rising rates, higher energy costs, will be ameliorated in coming months.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

The 40-foot elevation drop from the General Hospital forecourt to the commercial hub will be ameliorated by raising the low area about 20 feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

The deceit is either ameliorated or worsened by the obvious unreliability of Thomas’s testimony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

But Americans should not expect that all this can be ameliorated, much less erased.

From Salon ● May 1, 2025

Spring drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased; its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Adding unpaid labor onto one’s daily workload is draining and, provided your domestic partner is open to ameliorating the imbalance, solvable.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

In 2018, Congress took a small step toward ameliorating this problem.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2023

The researchers employed a novel computational method developed earlier by Morgun and Shulzhenko, transkingdom network analysis, to uncover TXN's mechanism for ameliorating metabolic syndrome.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023

If Petro can fill the role of a balanced mediator, he stands to gain regionally by reviving commercial relations between Colombia and Venezuela, and internationally by ameliorating one of the hemisphere’s most nagging crises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

She had a notion about the air down here and its ameliorating effects on the circulation.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead