melioration

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melioration
Noun
  • The scale and timing of price increases will likely vary depending on whether a model or its parts originates in the U.S., as well as a manufacturer’s assessment of its customers’ capacity to absorb higher costs, some experts said.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Brown County, another GOP-leaning area, reported a 34 percent increase in early turnout.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Such a method automatically reduces your withdrawals during downturns and limits withdrawals during upturns.
    Steve Vernon, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • To the best of our knowledge, that was not the case with Smith, either. — To avoid an upturn that could make the termination more difficult.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The idea for Inner Cosmos emerged over the 2010s, in conversation with that decade’s historic clinical breakthroughs in neuroprosthetic BCIs.
    Naveen Rao, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Thanh Nho Do, a biomedical engineer at the University of New South Wales in Australia, who wasn’t involved with the study, calls this pacemaker a breakthrough in miniaturization.
    Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • An individual movie can’t fix what’s wrong with the world, but filmmakers can and should continue to advocate for the betterment of art and, in turn, the world.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Instead, the character goes on impassioned tirades about SpongeBob, leading Hernandez to break character a number of times to the betterment of the bit, which is perhaps aimed at recent blind items by Academy Awards voters who have admitted to neglecting certain movies on negligible criteria.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But his search for new forms never yielded a sense of personal uplift or fulfillment.
    Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
  • This includes $300 million in capex savings, $350 million in opex reductions and $144 million in revenue uplift.
    Raghav Sahgal, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Melioration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melioration. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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