ameliorate

If we must open ourselves up to books, are there any that either ameliorate this danger, or else make reading them worthwhile?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The three paragraphs on Africa at the end spoke about partnering with "select countries to ameliorate conflict, foster mutually beneficial trade relationships" and move from supplying aid to encouraging investment and economic growth.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

Ideally, Owens and Erika Kirk could find alignment, and ameliorate some of Owens’ more looney ideas.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025

Some legislation has been proposed to ameliorate the concerns, or at least lay the legal groundwork for an unconventional quick-turn census.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2025

The accused have told me and their counsel have told me that the accused who were all leaders of the non-European population were motivated entirely by a desire to ameliorate these grievances.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

It diminishes the irritation in wounds and ulcers, ameliorates and lessens too copious suppuration and promotes the healing processes.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

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

Mr. Xi could have ameliorated the damage by creating new avenues for productive private investment that would boost productivity and stimulate more domestic demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

The judge said his segregation was ameliorated by him being allowed "some three hours per day out of his cell, which is more than twice the time allowed to convicted prisoners held in segregation".

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025

We have ameliorated on a planetary scale injustices that only recently were global and endemic.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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