better place

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Before processing to the cemetery, the priest asked the mourners to believe that the girls -- whose names translate to "faith" and "love" -- were now in a better place and with God.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Actress Olivia Colman said: "Thank you so much for everything you have given all of us throughout the years, the world is a much better place with you in it."

From BBC • May 8, 2026

What better place to reflect on that proposition than a spot just 12 blocks south of Hunt’s apogee: the façade of the Met.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

“It has not led us to a better place as a city.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

In the previous decade he had been let go from jobs at Harvard and the National Forest Service and eventually, for want of a better place to stick him, given a desk at the U.S.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson