meliorations

plural of melioration

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for meliorations
Noun
  • Even with increases in public funding, the demand for affordable childcare significantly outpaces supply, especially for infants.
    Michelle Cottle, Mercury News, 16 June 2026
  • While most of those states lean to the left, and Democratic legislators are far more likely to back minimum wage increases than Republicans, several staunchly conservative states similar to Oklahoma have passed higher minimum wages by ballot initiative.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • The charges of assault with a firearm included enhancements for a using a gun in the crime.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 June 2026
  • The vast majority, about $59 billion, is earmarked for farm safety-net enhancements.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • This barrier island beach town is a stone's throw from the numerous refinements of Savannah.
    Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
  • Lucas Blalock likewise finds tragicomic potential in photography itself, inverting Photoshop as a mere tool of postproduction to foreground it as generative and creative, leaving visible traces of labor in ugly edits and unrefined refinements.
    Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
Noun
  • This change has fundamentally revolutionized the pace of innovation—shifting us away from incremental advances and toward more rapid, system-level transformations across science and engineering.
    Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 16 June 2026
  • Researchers have been trying to develop a test for CTE prior to death, but there are currently no advances.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • What technology breakthroughs will underpin this forecasted dramatic improvement in the resource efficiency of artificial intelligence?
    Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026
  • The country wants breakthroughs by 2027 and a globally competitive brain-computer interface industry by 2030.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
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“Meliorations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meliorations. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.

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