Better
Meanings and phrases
better
- (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
- (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness
- (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable; best
- more than half
better
- comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.
- from a position of superiority or authority; best
better
- something superior in quality or condition or effect
- a superior person having claim to precedence
- the superior one of two alternatives
- someone who bets; bettor; wagerer; punter
better
- surpass in excellence; break
- to make better; improve; amend; ameliorate; meliorate
- get better; improve; ameliorate; meliorate
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- in a more fortunate or prosperous condition
- But "better off" should be measured by more than finance.
- His parents realised that Simon was better off learning the piano.
- He writes a letter: "Dear Helen, you will be better off without me.
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- This form of parasitism is better known as myiasis.
- Thiols are better known than selenols or tellurols.
- Wag (company) Wag Labs (better known as simply Wag!)
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- The play is dreadful, and Avice is not much better.
- Those I knew were much better assassins than soldiers.
- executed the storyline "much better" than the film did.
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- This, in turn, leads him to a better understanding of humanity.
- See figure for better understanding.
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- Knowing that, in turn, helps us better understand how all galaxies evolve."
- McCorkle wanted to better understand management of terminal cancer patients.
- Psychologists have attempted to better understand these factors by using models.
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- These pens are better suited for left handed persons.
- She decided that a "subtle nuance" of the illness better suited Marta.
- E763–E772 were better suited to the longer routes of the Western section.
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- "Fear of Flying" (2000) fared even better at No.
- In 1898 the Duquesnes decided to build an even better team.
- We are working hard to get even better."
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- Byron's Cheshire army was in no better case.
- magazine, this album did no better and Jive dropped them.
- similarly added a pod on the top wing with no better luck.
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- Maise is looking to find a better life in singing.
- They drive away towards a better life away from Sin City.
- They were mainly newly married who were seeking a better life.
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- He was far better in counsel than in fluent or ornate speech."
- He performed far better, going 2-3 with a 3.64 ERA in ten starts.
- But it's still a far better movie than we had a right to expect."
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- This was to provide better conditions for a robust and sustainable command.
- The engine was moved forward in the chassis to provide better space inside the cab.
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- The idea was to share reporting among the four stations in order to better cover the state.
- They have a number of songs which are in English, in order to better reach an international audience.
- It promotes dialogue and respect, as well as sensitization in order to better understand homosexuals.
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- a better car, bigger house, better quality of life, etc.)
- It marks a shift to large scale and better quality production.
- Diocletian restored the three-metal coinage and issued better quality pieces.
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- Engagement is related to better performance.
- The image quality is asymmetric with better performance on the right side.
- Both enable developers to get better performance out of PlayStation hardware.
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- They get better nutrition and can afford better health care.
- He's helped this team get better every day", said Thibodeau.
- There’s every reason to believe that this series can get better."
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- In 1995 he performed slightly better.
- Besides North, the plexes in Mumbai should fare slightly better."
- The resulting queenless middlegame scores slightly better for White.
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- This was before she became better known as Faye Wong.
- They became better known in Japan than either Europe or the United States.
- Convection remained minimal until September 3, when the system became better organized.
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- The better part of the 2017-18 season he missed due to injury.
- Nevertheless, Peter outworked him for the better part of nine rounds.
- Cryptic Fate spent the better part of two years writing and recording "Danob".
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- In this regard Monteverdi fared better than most.
- His work on private commission fared better.
- "Thomas Tracy", meanwhile, fared better.
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- Dogs are better able to tolerate aspirin than cats are.
- Maximian fled to Massilia (Marseille), a town better able to withstand a long siege than Arles.
- So adult spiders are better able to defend themselves and may die before parasitism is complete.
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- A nest made in a colder climate with less precipitation has a better chance of survival.
- In April 2009, Castle stated "there's probably a better chance I'll run for the Senate than the House.
- Larger males with larger nests have better chance of successful mating than smaller males with smaller nests.
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- The world would be a better place without you".
- Ernie and his family devoted their lives to making this world a better place.
- He has also not harmed the forest but saved it and made it a better place to live in.
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- Testing a larger range of ages may show better results.
- Team had better results when he was playing.
- It is often administered with ketoconazole for better results.
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- 90 percent of users responded that they would use TEEAL more if they had better access.
- The Brasília metro is not comprehensive so buses may provide better access to the center.
- Many programs have been developed to help individual physicians gain better access to evidence.
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- He held that the rest of the town was little better.
- The crowd was a little better that day, but not by much.
- The crowd was a little better on Saturday, but not much.
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- However it performed better in Hong Kong and Japan.
- The film performed better on television than on video.
- Internationally, the single performed better.
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- to better serve the needs of the northeastern states.
- These higher speeds better serve the longer distances involved.
- It was expanded in 2008 and was added to better serve customers.
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- The BBC said the new set would allow for HD filming and better reflect the modern East End of London.
- Each governing body made changes to better reflect the state of competition among their members corps.
- This change came about in an attempt to better reflect what the volunteers can offer to their communities.
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- She decided a horror film would be a better way to present the story.
- I couldn't think of a better way to bring this 17-year run to an end.
- A few minor Christian sects advocate celibacy as a better way of life.
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- As for the promises of a better future: The results are in.
- Iran.’ with works on the development of a better future for Iran.
- These people dream about the COP, awaiting a better future" (page 314).
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- We've got to do a better job around him."
- Finding this sad, Phos decides to find Cinnabar a better job.
- By May 1844 the new model which did a better job of fully separating the grain was working.
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- UBIFS tends to perform better than JFFS2 for large NAND FLASH devices.
- I prefer for there to be pressure, I am more focused and I perform better."
- Many of replacement player that were signed proved to perform better than the originals.
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- Performance on real networks is significantly better.
- Almost none have performed significantly better than a placebo in clinical trials.
- While all 20 NSAIDs were found to reduce more pain than the placebo, 15 were found to be significantly better.
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- They become better critical thinkers.
- By the mid-1930s Leicester Square had become better known for cinemas.
- Teachers need to go back to school periodically to become better educators.
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- He later develops better control of his hunger.
- So, Dhanush better control his own and choose stories carefully.
- They found better control, less hypoglycaemia and 95% acceptance.
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- Some researchers consider this a better fit to observations.
- This implied that a period of 160.01 minutes produced a better fit to the data.
- The graphics are renewed, while the story is changed to better fit into the main canon.
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- Plus, one can get a better perspective from the edge".
- Peled moved forward to get a better view.
- Meier slipped while attempting to climb up a rock to get a better view and fell over 100 feet.
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- According to Herodotus, the Greeks were better equipped.
- The better equipped Hi-Deluxe version also appeared in December 1969.
- This was also when the "Bravo" name was added to better equipped van models.
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- 10° ATDC), which makes better use of the high cylinder pressures at this point in the cycle.
- He began recruiting other Harbingers and creating programs to teach them how to better use their powers.
- This facilitates an organism's body that is exposed to the AAS to make better use of the nutrients already consumed.
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- Everything to make better knives cheaper.
- In being able to detect reliability, one can make better decisions and employ trust in the right people.
- States have tried to use state schools to increase state power, especially to make better soldiers and workers.
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- However, Morazán had a better position and smashed the federal army.
- In 2019, the college announced several changes to better position students for success.
- Bach looked for a better position and found it as at the court of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.
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- Neill believed that children learn better when they are not compelled to attend lessons.
- They changed for the better when Trudeau and President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) found a better rapport.
- Eriksen of Stargate said it was an A&R person who suggested that the song would work better when sung by a woman.
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- The richness and cultural diversity of rug weaving were gradually better understood.
- Johnston makes easier to understand social parallels that can be better understood by the layman.
- Covalent bonds are better understood by valence bond (VB) theory or molecular orbital (MO) theory.
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- I honestly feel better mentally than I ever have in my life."
- Or,maybe I’m just telling myself that to make myself feel better.
- As he claimed during the interrogation, he murdered to feel better.
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- Gurruwiwi moved to Bendigo at 18 months of age in order to have a better education.
- The parents generally have a better education and try to impress this upon their child on a daily basis.
- In this competitive approach, people want their own students to get a better education than other students.
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- It did better in Canada, reaching number four.
- The follower, "Just Feels Right" (2005), did better, peaking at No.
- It did better on the Hot Rap Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts respectively.
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- [...] there is no hope of his ever getting better."
- then 3-3 the game is only getting better .
- He just keeps getting better."
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- This was to provide better conditions for a robust and sustainable command.
- It was initiated by waste collectors seeking higher wages and better conditions.
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- DHCA is used to provide a better visual field during surgery due to the cessation of blood flow.
- Together these two patterns provide a better view of the competition's intrinsic country pair biases.
- Many important archaeological discoveries have been made that can provide a better understanding of that era.
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- This was before she became better known as Faye Wong.
- They became better known in Japan than either Europe or the United States.
- From the 1970s on, Muharrem Ertaş became better known as the "father of Neşet Ertaş", who reached fame.
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- Plan some behavior that is likely to work better.
- I feel as though I can work better."
- The experiment seemed to work better on a wooden table than a marble table top.
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- It just kinda gets better and more relevant with every passing year."
- Most of them argued that Supermax featured better and more mature shows.
- Rather it describes God-given understanding of existing revelation in a better and more accurate way.
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- Convection remained minimal until September 3, when the system became better organized.
- The convection fluctuated in intensity, eventually becoming better organized on March 9.
- Dry air continued to hinder convection, although Isaac gradually became better organized.
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- Its players really are worthy of better treatment."
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon is very much in favour of better treatment of animals.
- This publicity resulted in better treatment of U.S. POWs from fall 1969 on.
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- They get better nutrition and can afford better health care.
- The key priority of the Foundation is better health for Ukraine’s children.
- She is interested in how improved understanding of animal diseases can lead to better health in humans.
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- He vowed to work for a better world.
- Lea feels that she wants to do more than them in order to create a better world.
- freedom is a gift and love and respect for each other makes for a better world !!
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- Omneya Abdel Kawy got the better of her again in the quarters.
- But soon enough, Man's warlike nature got the better of Humanity, again.
- He fights Batgirl until she got the better of him using a foam and smoke pellet.
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- Swartz was known as a gifted speaker and a champion of better working conditions for women.
- However, she often advocated for better working conditions for black nurses in South Africa.
- The embassy moved in order to have a larger and better working environment, but also for security purposes.
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- Over the years, several thousands Hondurans have immigrated to Spain seeking better opportunities.
- As any growing city Dar es Salaam is the city in Tanzania to which villagers flock for better opportunities.
- Since independence, many Spanish migrants immigrated to Costa Rica seeking better opportunities in the nation.
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- In this regard Monteverdi fared better than most.
- He states that the series is "better than most sci-fi films out there".
- What’s more, they can sneak around better than most anyone on this list."
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- Larger and better served airports are within a short distance of Lancaster.
- Velasio de Paolis decided that they would be better served by their own internal government.
- However, Robertson displayed a physicality that coaches felt would be better served at linebacker.
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- The 75mm turrets could be lowered for better protection.
- As result of better protection conditions in the park the population of animals has increased.
- The study called for better protection of ports such as New York Harbor, and Davids' Island became part of its system of defenses.
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- The knee and ankle joints became increasingly robust to better support increased weight.
- In the process, IBM made modifications to the TSS/370 hypervisor to better support Unix.
- Because of the size of the head, the neck is relatively short to provide better support.
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- Different from the Nazis, but not better."
- In this game, a six is not better than a one, or vice versa.
- Acupuncture is not better than mainstream treatment in the long term.
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- The goal is for 100% of students to be on grade level or better in reading and mathematics, by the Spring of 2014.
- The goal was for 100% of students to be on grade level or better in reading and mathematics, by the Spring of 2014.
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- Peled moved forward to get a better view.
- The south summit has flashes of quartz in the uppermost rock and by far the better view.
- Meier slipped while attempting to climb up a rock to get a better view and fell over 100 feet.
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- For better or worse, we'll all ride them out together to the end."
- For better or worse, The Archers were always out of step with mainstream British cinema.
- On other models, an "optimal" design can be either better or worse than a non-optimal design.
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- The goal is for 100% of students to be on grade level or better in reading and mathematics, by the Spring of 2014.
- The goal was for 100% of students to be on grade level or better in reading and mathematics, by the Spring of 2014.
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- His mother moved the family to the capital city, Nairobi, to seek better living conditions.
- She was refitted after the war, with better living quarters, and recommissioned on 1 August 1902.
- Many Germans died of tropical disease, while others left the colonies to find better living conditions.
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- Financially, US channels tend to fare a lot better than UK based ones.
- It should have been a lot rawer; we play it a lot better live I think."
- The preceding years were a lot better compared to the rest of the world.
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- / Has everything he does not been done better?"
- Kangana's performance is also decent but she could have done better.
- I don’t think I’d have done better if I’d been down there in the Gulf still.
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- Swartz was known as a gifted speaker and a champion of better working conditions for women.
- However, she often advocated for better working conditions for black nurses in South Africa.
- However, according to the Belsen Trial, she had received a bonus as well as better working conditions at this camp.
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- The campaign began the same day, and "The Times" noted that the Liberals were better prepared.
- In this way, engineering students would, theoretically, be better prepared to enter the engineering workforce.
- The changes were instituted as part of a modernisation campaign to make the army better prepared for rapid mobilisation.
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- There may not be a better record to come out of Nashville in 2018."
- It’s custom written and you better record it because I think it’s a hit.'
- While the dice may determine the outcome of a single game, the better player will accumulate the better record over series of many games.
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- In "Beyond Freedom and Dignity", Skinner suggests that a technology of behavior could help to make a better society.
- Lynch wanted to make some alterations that would alter the story from true events, but in his view make a better plot.
- After Holt expresses that he also hates the night shift, the squad decides to make a better effort in showing their support.
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- This allows vehicles with radial tires to achieve better fuel economy than with bias-ply tires.
- Many .22 LR barrels used in biathlon feature a choked (constricted) muzzle, presumably to achieve better performance in cold weather.
- The vessels still engaged stayed longer on the whaling grounds to achieve better results and in the process were sometimes trapped by the ice.
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- Kitty Empire of "The Observer" observed that "it would better suit a boy band in a Caribbean time warp.
- Later, GKOS has been further developed under name ComboKey to better suit the touch screens of smartphones.
- It is essentially a Kawai K4r with percussion waveforms, plus faster envelopes, gate mode and amplifier to better suit percussion sounds.
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- On paper, Rob Johnson appeared to be a better choice.
- However, pursuing a better choice for his career, he convinced Pizzolatto that he was suited for the lead.
- He suggested that finding someone like Jean-Jacques Goldman and making the whole album with him would be a better choice.
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- thrust and better fuel efficiency.
- It was as fast as the Citation II, but had 60% better fuel economy."
- Research has shown advanced drivers to be safer and have better fuel efficiency too.
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- Serious students will just have to wait for something better."
- It's worth to reject, protest and possibly get something better.
- You'll find something better."
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- Ivens worked to create a better life for the working class of Manitoba.
- "Together, we can create a better future for Cambodia’s women and children."
- Lea feels that she wants to do more than them in order to create a better world.
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- Larger males can better protect the female and the eggs against predators.
- On the other hand, baskets, being made of a more rigid material, may better protect their contents.
- To better protect the aircraft by increasing the standoff distance, a glide bomb category of K/YBS500 was also developed.
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- It made me a better person and a better man.
- Meanwhile, she is also trying to reform herself into a better person.
- One reader, Michelle Jenkins was all for the pairing and said Maxie "makes [Peter] want to be a better person."
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- To fund his studies, Sum Ming works hard in Mauritius for better pay.
- We were offered better pay at Dimension Pictures, so we left for Dimension.
- In 1980, 700 people staged a 13-day hunger strike, demanding better pay and stricter regulation of the old system of employment.
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- The audiences just got better and better."
- Her palate got better during her visits to her relatives in London.
- We've got better stuff to do."
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- Published in 1902, this book helped Western Protestants gain a better understanding of Eastern Orthodoxy.
- However, in the late 1860s, Yerkes decided to move to Northville so that his children could gain a better education.
- The goal of glacial morphology is to gain a better understanding of glaciated landscapes, and the way they are shaped.
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- Maise is looking to find a better life in singing.
- Orders were made to Volvo and Hino in an effort to find a better vehicle.
- A review on Hrej.cz commented that it would be impossible to find a better freeware clone of The Sims.
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- The cause of the dampness must first be eliminated, by providing better drainage or fixing leaking pipes.
- It may be deemed as a part of pharmacy due to its focus on the use of technology on chemical agents in providing better medicinal treatment.
- Some upgrades included re-locating the bar and the stage, as well as providing better utilization of the upstairs space by adding deck access.
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- The solos are excellent and the music is much better than expected".
- The Yemenis would soon discover that this qualification was going better than expected.
- The book became an immediate bestseller, receiving notable praise and selling much better than expected.
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- The game's presentation was better received.
- The musical score was better received, being described as a solid and well-made part of the game.
- This book was better received than previous biographies of Shelley, such as "The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley".
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- In February 1849, Anne seemed somewhat better.
- While traffic moved somewhat better, the other problems remained.
- Hungary, with its heavy agricultural base, was somewhat better fed.
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- We wish each other well and look forward to better relations in 2017".
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt promoted a "good neighbor" policy that sought better relations with Mexico.
- Up until this event, Eisenhower felt he had been making progress towards better relations with the Soviet Union.
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- She reveals that she told Negan of Rick's plan and was offered a "better deal" by the Saviors.
- The message was that gay voters, like consumers, would get a better deal with more competition for their support.
- Ray Hunt is famous for starting each clinic with the statement "I'm here for the horse, to help him get a better deal."
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- The 2014 edition of Paramarsh turned out to be bigger and better.
- They were replaced in 1970 by the present bigger and better facilities.
- After the fight, Simpson said "I hope I can go on to bigger and better things now.
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- The classes that follow this methodology better prepare students for lessons and projects.
- Ski & Snowboard adopted virtual reality technology to better prepare its olympic team for the Pyeongchang games.
- Playing rules match High School and College playing rules to better prepare players for the next level of competition.
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- It has 80 houses and its condition is better than other areas.
- This conducts sound better than other bones, thus aiding biosonar.
- Etoricoxib given at a dose of 120 mg is as effective or even better than other analgesics that are commonly used.
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- Eleanor was better educated than most medieval queens and exerted a strong cultural influence on the nation.
- This figure is the same in the United States, where Muslims are better educated and integrated into society than in Europe."
- The Committee's membership reflected the bipartisan opposition to the bill, especially among better educated and wealthier constituencies.
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- Indeed, he found he could better represent these effects in watercolours than in oils.
- However, many become disillusioned over time, and migrate towards other groups which better represent their ideals.
- Founded in 1916 as Perley A. Thomas Car Works, the company was renamed in 1972 to better represent its primary product lines.
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- She is credited with helping her husband become a better student.
- The wholesomeness of Lorelei kindles a desire in Bob to become a better man.
- In her own words, she had become a better Christian through the influence of Vivekananda.
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- The striker used his pace to get the better of Lundekvam, only to have his shot blocked by goalkeeper Antti Niemi.
- Enraged, Holmes duels Ehtar and finally manages to get the better of him when Ehtar falls into the frozen River Thames.
- Ned has bet against Coppermine in this race, and the poor black stable hand is able to get the better of the rich white grandfather.