How to Use ameliorate in a Sentence

ameliorate

verb

• This medicine should help ameliorate the pain.
• Placebos do not, however, ameliorate the symptoms of valid diseases such as pneumonia and cancer.
  — John Rosemond, charlotteobserver, 11 May 2017
• The report billed itself as a comprehensive agenda to ameliorate inequality.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 July 2016
• Given the increasing scale of this practice, the focus must be on establishing a health care system that can cope with and ameliorate its physical and emotional complications.
  — Jalal Baig, Slate Magazine, 1 May 2017
• Dowd and Cobb spent the rest of 2017 trying to ameliorate Trump.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2018
• What is the answer to ameliorate these needs in the changing workplace?
  — Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• The world is not yet on track to make the changes necessary to ameliorate its worst effects.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2020
• But Biden and Xi could, at least, agree to work together to try to ameliorate it.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• Our dream is to enlarge it so that all people can join us and share the good in it while ameliorating the bad.
  — Kevin Kelly, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2013
• The fate of the world’s largest rainforest and the global quest to ameliorate the effects of climate change hang in the balance.
  — Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2021
• Cloud seeding has been used since the 1970s and could help ameliorate today’s droughts.
  — Parag Khanna, Wired, 20 Sep. 2020
• Those outcomes have yet to do much to ameliorate the court's image in the public's mind.
  — Time, 30 Sep. 2023
• Once in power, Napoleon sought to ameliorate the effects of the French civil war.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Oh, but there is one thing a female leader can do to ameliorate this bias!
  — Andrea Bartz, Marie Claire, 24 Mar. 2020
• The city came to its senses, realizing that the only way to ameliorate the toll road was to not build it in the first place.
  — Dallas News, 9 June 2022
• Drugs can ameliorate some symptoms but cannot stop the progression of the disease.
  — Jenna Sternberg, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2019
• The doctor’s duty was to care for the wounded, to ameliorate suffering, and the soldier must stand down in the face of that moral duty.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• Congress can pass a law in most cases to ameliorate or roll back a Supreme Court opinion.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 26 June 2022
• This shift to hybrid care could ameliorate some of the major problems in the U.S. healthcare system.
  — Larry English, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
• In the summer of 2012, the Wings were trying to ameliorate the retirement of Nicklas Lidstrom.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2021
• Here, the inflatable couch that has helped ameliorate my supply chain woes.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2022
• My first response to death is a sense of trying to ameliorate what happened and put the situation right.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• At all three schools, the coaches said chess has helped ameliorate behavioral issues in the classroom.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2022
• Could these have been ameliorated by a female presence in the household?
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Berggren was called up to ameliorate the loss of multiple skilled forwards, but even as Bertuzzi, for one, returned, Berggren has stayed in the lineup.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
• The Wings have had to scramble lines and defense pairings to ameliorate losing five players to the pandemic.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2021
• For most of the process, E.U. officials and diplomats from some member countries worked to ameliorate two types of concerns.
  — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• Exercise can ameliorate some of the effects of nerve damage.
  — Lynn Peterson Mobley, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
• The party must, in fact, be devoted to ameliorating it.
  — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
• Cool down Cooling the body down using tools like air conditioning and 15-minute cold showers is one way to ameliorate the negative effects of heat.
  — Li Zhou, Vox, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024