melioration

noun

Definition of meliorationnext
as in amelioration

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  1. strengthening
  2. enhancement
  3. increase
  4. upturn
  5. breakthrough
  6. betterment
  7. uplift
Noun
  • These actions should be paired with measures that expand protections for the United States’ biotech innovation infrastructure, including the strengthening of a national security review process governing foreign investment in the sector.
    — Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • In response, the OLCI offered a proposal that combines legal reforms and institutional strengthening as well as operational actions.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of strengthening
Noun
  • Orographic enhancement on the windward side contributed to these extreme amounts.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The team Jon-Eric Sullivan is building is about 10 legitimate NFL players away from having a respectable roster, and have $16 million in cap space to use for enhancements to the roster.
    — Omar Kelly August 15, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of enhancement
Noun
  • The Defense Ministry in Bucharest said that so far this year, Russia had attacked targets close to Romania's frontier 54 times, representing a significant increase on the 28 attacks close to the border in all of 2025.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • New York City sanitation workers say their job has been pricklier than usual after the Department of Sanitation reported an increase in needle stick injuries.
    — Noelle Lilley, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of increase
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  • After July’s momentum wreck, bullish market sentiment retreated from extreme levels, setting the table for last week’s upturn.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
  • While Georgia Ports Authority is pleased at the upturn, all the economic and global uncertainty has led to guarded predictions for the future.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of upturn
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  • World-renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, John Gottman has conducted 50 years of breakthrough research with thousands of couples.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Look Beyond Your Own Industry Some of the most powerful breakthroughs happen when leaders are willing to go outside their comfort zone and ask how someone in a completely different industry has solved a similar problem.
    — Jen Fuller, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of breakthrough
Noun
  • The author emphasizes that financial security allows partnership to be a choice for love and mutual betterment, rather than a necessity for survival.
    — Kristin Vance Richards, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • But that means better finishing and more of a willingness to play toward the betterment of the team.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of betterment
Noun
  • The additional uplift also supports the company’s growing Heavyweight Express offering, enabling customers to move shipments larger than 50 kilograms through the DHL Express international time-definite network via air.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Even within a successful store, more than four in ten categories generated no measurable uplift.
    — Ayşe Çetinel, Harvard Business Review, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of uplift
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