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as in improves
to make better
trying to amend the situation of the striking workers by supplying them with minimal food supplies
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as in corrects
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from
the Bill of Rights was adopted in an effort to amend a constitution that seemed to many to be deficient in guaranteeing individual rights
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as in reforms
to change one's behavior or character for the better
the judge had heard the defendant promise before that he would amend
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Recent Examples of amends
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
The Sánchez government’s measure was fast-tracked via a decree that amends immigration laws.
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Suman Naishadham,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
The bill amends military court rules in the occupied West Bank, allowing judges to impose the death penalty without needing a unanimous decision.
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Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
The bill amends dozens of sections of Iowa code by striking references to townships and township trustees and replacing them with counties and county supervisors.
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Nick El Hajj,
Des Moines Register,
5 Feb. 2026
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The Sánchez government's measure was fast-tracked via a decree that amends immigration laws.
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ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
The Sánchez government’s measure was fast-tracked via a decree that amends immigration laws.
—
Suman Naishadham,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
The bill amends military court rules in the occupied West Bank, allowing judges to impose the death penalty without needing a unanimous decision.
—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
The bill amends dozens of sections of Iowa code by striking references to townships and township trustees and replacing them with counties and county supervisors.
—
Nick El Hajj,
Des Moines Register,
5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amends
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The lawsuit sought compensatory and punitive damages for claims including false imprisonment, battery and constitutional retaliation.
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The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
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The hit rate improves dramatically.
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The show, which improves after intermission, does have a fabulous closer — greatest-hits worthy — that is composed simply of two guys (musical director John Love and the consistently excellent Lilly) singing in falsetto.
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Soon after, Hawk absentmindedly corrects Piña’s English, prompting her to air her own frustrations with their relationship.
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This story corrects the day of week.
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There’s that churro bread pudding, the one with a junkyard origin story that breaks down the churros and then reforms them into a dense and perfect block as powerful as an Avengers movie prop.
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Kentucky's General Assembly has passed House Bill 2, which reforms the state's Medicaid program.
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Sharper battlefield awareness Teledyne FLIR said the software enhances image quality using computational imaging techniques such as turbulence mitigation, dehazing, and super-resolution.
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The workflow also has extensibility to a variety of other agentic use cases, including the company’s Chat Concierge tool which enhances the customer experience for car buyers and dealers.
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The Neo rewrites the budget-laptop playbook, with a higher-end build, a more advanced screen, longer battery life, and faster speeds than many laptops in its price range.
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Sensors track flow, signals and microdelays; the agent continuously rewrites signal timing, lane usage and routing incentives in real time.
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Imagine infrastructure that behaves less like static software and more like adaptive biological defense.
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Lighting, room size, and function all play a role in how color behaves.
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New York’s Bivens Act remedies this by extending the protections of Section 1983 to all individual government wrongdoers — including federal ones.
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Stay prepared for those just-in-case scenarios by stocking everything from itch creams and allergy meds to cold and headache remedies.
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“Amends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amends. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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