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Synonyms

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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Stewart said she had been "overwhelmed" by the support from family, friends and "even strangers", adding that the "you've inspired me to get better, not bitter".

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

“They get better at it as they get older,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

I appreciate that your goal is to help others, and assure parents who are going through something similar that it does, indeed, get better.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

“Hill climbing has become, basically, if you have some metric, how do you get better at it?” said Ashwin Sreenivas, co-founder of Decagon, a company that builds AI customer service agents.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

If my decisions reflected this abysmal reality, how could things ever get better?

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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