ameliorative

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ameliorative
Adjective
  • While direct confrontation can carry risks, especially with politically adept individuals, there are constructive ways to assess the situation and mitigate reputational exposure.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Log in Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
    Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • These landmark legislations aim to empower individuals with disabilities to find gainful employment, become economically self-sufficient and contribute to their local communities and economies.
    Paul Toomey, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
  • The gainful employment rule is intended to help students avoid low-value programs that leave them with too much debt and minimal earning potential.
    Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • The job was not remunerative and there was no job security.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Over the next few years Trump will have major influence over antitrust policy, the development and use of artificial intelligence and the growth and prevalence of cryptocurrency, to name just some of the issues of vital and remunerative interest to the tech industry.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Additionally, hospitals strategically manage their patient mix to game the 340B eligibility criteria and expand into wealthier neighborhoods to capture lucrative outpatient drug margins.
    Ge Bai, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Dynamic is his attempt to bring that system to the U.S. Most of the kids at Dynamic won’t make the N.B.A., but all of them could play for major college programs—and big-time college basketball is a lucrative endeavor in itself.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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“Ameliorative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ameliorative. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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