How to Use ameliorate in a Sentence

ameliorate

verb
Definition of amelioratenext
Synonyms for amelioratenext
  • This medicine should help ameliorate the pain.
  • Dowd and Cobb spent the rest of 2017 trying to ameliorate Trump.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2018
  • What is the answer to ameliorate these needs in the changing workplace?
    — Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The world is not yet on track to make the changes necessary to ameliorate its worst effects.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • But Biden and Xi could, at least, agree to work together to try to ameliorate it.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Our dream is to enlarge it so that all people can join us and share the good in it while ameliorating the bad.
    — Kevin Kelly, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2013
  • The fate of the world’s largest rainforest and the global quest to ameliorate the effects of climate change hang in the balance.
    — Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Cloud seeding has been used since the 1970s and could help ameliorate today’s droughts.
    — Parag Khanna, Wired, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Those outcomes have yet to do much to ameliorate the court's image in the public's mind.
    — Time, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Once in power, Napoleon sought to ameliorate the effects of the French civil war.
    — Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Oh, but there is one thing a female leader can do to ameliorate this bias!
    — Andrea Bartz, Marie Claire, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The city came to its senses, realizing that the only way to ameliorate the toll road was to not build it in the first place.
    — Dallas News, 9 June 2022
  • Drugs can ameliorate some symptoms but cannot stop the progression of the disease.
    — Jenna Sternberg, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The doctor’s duty was to care for the wounded, to ameliorate suffering, and the soldier must stand down in the face of that moral duty.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Congress can pass a law in most cases to ameliorate or roll back a Supreme Court opinion.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 26 June 2022
  • This shift to hybrid care could ameliorate some of the major problems in the U.S. healthcare system.
    — Larry English, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • In the summer of 2012, the Wings were trying to ameliorate the retirement of Nicklas Lidstrom.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2021
  • Here, the inflatable couch that has helped ameliorate my supply chain woes.
    — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2022
  • My first response to death is a sense of trying to ameliorate what happened and put the situation right.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
  • At all three schools, the coaches said chess has helped ameliorate behavioral issues in the classroom.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Could these have been ameliorated by a female presence in the household?
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Berggren was called up to ameliorate the loss of multiple skilled forwards, but even as Bertuzzi, for one, returned, Berggren has stayed in the lineup.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The Wings have had to scramble lines and defense pairings to ameliorate losing five players to the pandemic.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2021
  • For most of the process, E.U. officials and diplomats from some member countries worked to ameliorate two types of concerns.
    — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Exercise can ameliorate some of the effects of nerve damage.
    — Lynn Peterson Mobley, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
  • The party must, in fact, be devoted to ameliorating it.
    — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • After the ball flew over his head, Herrera jogged to retrieve the baseball rather than sprinting to ameliorate his mistake.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2017
  • And the quest to ameliorate health inequalities is complex.
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2021
  • In England, the Protestant Reformation of the early sixteenth century did nothing to ameliorate this regime.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Other company policies will help to ameliorate inequality while boosting overall financial performance, such as granting employees equity stakes.
    — Paul Rissman, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

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