How to Use ameliorate in a Sentence

ameliorate

verb

• This medicine should help ameliorate the pain.
• 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
• 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
• Drugs can ameliorate some symptoms but cannot stop the progression of the disease.
  — Jenna Sternberg, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2019
• Oh, but there is one thing a female leader can do to ameliorate this bias!
  — Andrea Bartz, Marie Claire, 24 Mar. 2020
• Those outcomes have yet to do much to ameliorate the court's image in the public's mind.
  — Time, 30 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Could these have been ameliorated by a female presence in the household?
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Exercise can ameliorate some of the effects of nerve damage.
  — Lynn Peterson Mobley, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
• Here, the inflatable couch that has helped ameliorate my supply chain woes.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2022
• And the quest to ameliorate health inequalities is complex.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2021
• At all three schools, the coaches said chess has helped ameliorate behavioral issues in the classroom.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2022
• And is anyone looking to ameliorate those downsides so gig work can truly live up to its promise?
  — Alexandra Ossola, Quartz Africa, 5 Dec. 2019
• And perhaps the danger our nation faces will be ameliorated.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 12 July 2017
• But Biden and Xi could, at least, agree to work together to try to ameliorate it.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• The question was what would be the best way to actually try to ameliorate the situation?
  — Walter Frick, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2022
• Once in power, Napoleon sought to ameliorate the effects of the French civil war.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Law’s adoption of teamwork will ameliorate these deficits.
  — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• The tensions inherent in that state of affairs are what city government tries to ameliorate.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2020
• Congress can pass a law in most cases to ameliorate or roll back a Supreme Court opinion.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 26 June 2022
• The party must, in fact, be devoted to ameliorating it.
  — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The decision, though, will not ameliorate the all problems.
  — Deanna Paul, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• These studies show that coinfection can worsen, ameliorate or have no impact on the course of an illness.
  — Richard Klasco, M.d., New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• So, such spending cannot be nimble enough to ameliorate business cycles.
  — George Will, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2018
• This did nothing to ameliorate the problem of overcrowding.
  — Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
• All of this could be ameliorated by better data systems.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
• This policy has done much to ameliorate the racial injustice in kidney transplant.
  — Rachel Pearson, New York Times, 27 June 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024