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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Measures to ameliorate working conditions have had little effect.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the same time we had to cut our costs and reduce the numbers to at least ameliorate the losses.
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Confidence was increasing that men, through foresight and effective action, could ameliorate their existence and even prolong their lives.
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Correction of the acidemia will often ameliorate this problem.
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Even a decision to paint one of them a garish blue has failed to ameliorate the effect.
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Government has assumed the responsibility for ameliorating income inequality in our society.
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In a warm room the nose discharges and fills up which ameliorates the headache; a thick, fluent, yellow discharge.
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Older women in the developed countries suffered unnecessarily from diseases that could have been ameliorated, cured, or even prevented.
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Such policies either ameliorate the worst conditions that might provoke violence or provide certain classes with advantages over classes below them.