amends 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of amend
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as in reforms
to change one's behavior or character for the better the judge had heard the defendant promise before that he would amend

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amends

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plural noun

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Verb
  • At the same time, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is among those who forecast 50% of entry-level jobs may be wiped out by AI as the technology improves, including being able to work eight-hour shifts without a break.
    Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Maria’s relationship with Sylvia improves, as well as with the deputy head Sam (Jacob Anderson, completely unrecognizable from his Game of Thrones era), with whom Maria used to be in a romantic relationship.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When faced with a significant initial error of 50%, the new method corrects itself within just 5 seconds, while conventional approaches require over 100 seconds—a 20-fold improvement in recovery speed, according to researchers.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
  • But now researchers from the Biorobotics Laboratory at Seoul National University (SNU) have designed an exosuit that corrects body posture.
    Payal Dhar, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2021
Verb
  • In addition, the Pilot Pack ($3,400) enhances the Polestar 2’s safety features with 360-degree cameras, adaptive cruise control and more.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Treating technology migration and cultural integration as complementary strategies reduces friction and enhances adoption.
    Benjamin Niaulin, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, at the atomic scale, gold behaves in ways that are far more valuable to science than to fashion.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In dog stories, a dog gives unbounded love and is the best possible friend and behaves heroically—and then the dog dies.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To make sense of it, the team used a powerful mathematical tool known as a multimode Bogoliubov transformation, a technique that rewrites the system’s equations in a way that makes hidden patterns visible and the problem solvable.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
  • This book series rewrites six classic stories into choose your own adventure style books.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Verdict This year’s Jockey Club Gold Cup shapes up as one of the deepest renewals in recent memory.
    Jared Welch, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The youngest member, Keonho, at 16, is a key contributor to the group’s music videos, shapes up the group’s dynamic, and defines their current headspace perfectly — curious about the future, wanting the whole world to know their names.
    Kristine Kwak, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Stay prepared for those just-in-case scenarios by stocking everything from itch creams and allergy meds to cold and headache remedies.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
Plural Noun
  • The firm also argued that punitive damages should be eliminated or reduced to, at most, three times compensatory damages due to a statutory cap in the state of Florida.
    Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The jury concluded that Tesla knew its tech wasn’t up to that task, chose not to make that clear, and deserved to pay punitive damages for putting lives at risk.
    Merick T. Lewin, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
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“Amends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amends. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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