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Winging it happily at the right hand of Gretzky Ice hockey is perplexing enough without Wayne Gretzky, whose previous feats are yet to be explained, and here he is bettering them.

From Time Magazine Archive

You say you are all in your "better way," which is a very chearful hearing, for I trust you mean to include that your health is bettering too.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

"Well, the fact of it is, she is too sensible a woman to regret the absence of one whom she knows is bettering himself, so that there were but few tears shed between us."

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by Champney, James Wells

But while in the main the text of Shakespeare is bettering under criticism, Wordsworth is suffering miscorrection; and for the good that he has to give us we cannot quite dispense with the original editions.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various

For whatever serves to improve our images, at the same time is bettering the very foundation of imagination.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert