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get better

Idioms  
  1. Improve; recover one's health. For example, I just started studying Japanese, and I hope to get better soon, or The doctor said I could expect to get better within a couple of days. Also see get well.


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“They don’t have any personalization data or any shopping history. And so we do want to see that get better with third-party horizontal agents.”

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

And trust me, whatever line of business you embark upon, you’ll probably find that you’ve got to get better at using Microsoft Excel.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

"He will obviously get better with experience and practice but those are the areas where he might want to look at and work on."

From BBC • May 7, 2026

So it took a real rigor for me to know that if I wasn’t where I needed to be, I had to get better.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

I'm going to be an Olympic champion—if can just get better at backbends and cartwheels.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

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