as in amelioration
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Noun
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Aflac generated nearly $19 billion in revenue last year, which marked a 1.2% increase over the previous year, according to an earnings release.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
20 June 2025 -
Inflation in Japan highest in two years Rice prices in Japan more than doubled in May, spiking 101.7% year over year and marking their largest increase in over half a century.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
20 June 2025
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Their upturn in form coincided with Luis Enrique altering Dembele’s role from right winger to centre-forward, with the Frenchman operating as a false nine.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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Preceding the upturn, the ratio saw a significant downdraft in Q1 that resulted in a breakdown, indicating a bearish shift in XLK’s relative strength trend.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
12 May 2025
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There’s no hint yet of a breakthrough on SALT, though Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., predicted one will come soon — and that House Republicans will be able to swallow what the Senate comes up with.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
25 June 2025
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After a sensational breakthrough this season, Orlando City defender Alex Freeman has been named to the roster for the 2025 MLS All-Star team.—
Kyle Foley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2025
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Yet factories in developing countries are often portrayed as hot, uncomfortable, dangerous, and wholly unwelcoming places where workers are conscripted against their interests to toil for the betterment of the faraway West.—
Tony Morley,
National Review,
17 June 2025
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Speaking Monday, Breslow made a point to reference how past Red Sox championship teams were comprised of players who were willing to make sacrifices for the betterment of the team.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
17 June 2025
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The Alaskan mountain known as Denali was created by millions of years of geologic uplift.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
17 June 2025
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Whether the playwright, Lorraine Hansberry, intended the reading or not, the 1959 play is an icon of the pervasive and flattening ideal of Black uplift.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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