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better
adjective as in excelling, more excellent
adjective as in improved in health
adjective as in larger
adverb as in in a more excellent manner
Example Sentences
Researchers have found education can be a predictor of better cognitive performance, memory function, life expectancy and delayed onset of Alzheimer's disease or dementia.
An international research team has now developed a method for designing large new proteins better than before and producing them with the desired properties in the laboratory.
To understand better how play functions in chimpanzee society, they studied the play of 57 adult chimpanzees.
Companies such as Fox Television Stations, Nexstar Media Group, Tegna and Gray Media are eager to buy more TV stations to better compete against deep-pocketed tech firms that are aggressively pursuing viewers and ad dollars.
“We hope things will be better and the war will end,” she replies when I ask about political changes far away in the US.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say improve?
To better is to improve conditions which, though not bad, are unsatisfying: to better an attempt, oneself (as by gaining a higher salary). Improve usually implies remedying a lack or a felt need: to improve a process, oneself (as by gaining more knowledge). The more formal verb ameliorate implies improving oppressive, unjust, or difficult conditions: to ameliorate working conditions.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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