MELIORATIONS Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

meliorations

noun

plural of melioration

as in increases

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Noun

Russia's small and medium businesses already have been hit hard by tax increases, regulatory hurdles and, most recently, a fuel crisis from attacks on oil refineries.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Businesses without those controls may face exclusions, sublimits, premium increases or outright denials.

— Van Carlson, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of increases

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In advance of the official launch of the 2026-27 broadcast season, Nielsen is trotting out a number of new enhancements to its TV measurement scheme.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Summary American Airlines has been lambasted for not following Delta and United in offering premium enhancements.

— Ted Reed, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of enhancements

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Google says refinements to the Pixel Watch 5's GPS improve performance when tracking your location in big cities with skyscrapers.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
Featuring Bose’s noise cancellation technology, now referred to as QuietControl, the new QuietComfort headphones have several refinements over the first-generation model in their active noise cancellation performance.

— Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of refinements

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Brooks says advances in engineering, hardware, and access to massive datasets – combined with the incredible amount of money in tech, meant AI innovation could take off.

— Max Darrow, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Shares of Unitree, one of China's largest humanoid robot makers, initially soared as much as 629% in its public stock trading debut Wednesday in Shanghai, in the latest highlight of investor optimism over China’s technological advances.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of advances

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Total solar eclipses have driven major scientific breakthroughs for more than a century, most famously providing one of the first observational tests of Einstein’s general theory of relativity in 1919.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Building on earlier thermal breakthroughs THREADS is also part of a longer effort to make GaN electronics better at handling heat.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of breakthroughs

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