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Origin of enrichment
Explanation
Enrichment makes something more meaningful, substantial, or rewarding. Enrichment improves something. Riches are valuable things, such as money, jewels, and gold. Similarly, enrichment is when something is made more valuable. A reading enrichment program improves education. When vitamins or nutrients are added to food, that's enrichment because it makes the food healthier. All types of enrichment are improvements; they leave things better than they were before. You can also say such enrichment has enriched your life.
Vocabulary lists containing enrichment
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Example Sentences
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Enrichment has been stopped, at least for now.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
Starmer was at St George's Park to announce a new School Sport Partnerships and Enrichment Framework for schools to ensure all young people have equal access to high-quality sport and extracurricular activity.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025
Manning made his comments to reporters ahead of a receiving the 2024 Community Enrichment Award from the Mizel Institute in Denver.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024
Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez — chair of the Neighborhoods and Community Enrichment Committee, which oversees the city’s Animal Services — said the problem goes back decades.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2024
That the Enrichment Committee made the best possible use of the various quarries to which they had access is unlikely.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed
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