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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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The rest is believed to be under Fordow, and possibly damaged, or else at the above ground Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant and likely destroyed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
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
There is also the matter of negotiating a new contract with the Cliffside Helium Enrichment Unit—a privately owned facility that is necessary for processing helium at the reserve.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 5, 2023
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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